1929:
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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
- January 4
- 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
- January 11
- January 12
- January 13 – Aureliano Chaves, Brazilian politician, 19th Vice President of Brazil (d. 2003)
- January 14
- 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
- January 23
- 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
- January 29 – Elio Petri, Italian political filmmaker (d. 1982)
- January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021)
- January 31
February
Vic Morrow
Alejandro Jodorowsky
James Hong
Alexy II
Frank Gehry
- February 2
- February 4 – Jerry Adler, American actor
- February 5
- February 6
- February 8
- February 10
- February 14 – Vic Morrow, American actor, director (Combat) (d. 1982)
- February 15
- February 16 – Kazimierz Kutz, Polish film director and politician (d. 2018)
- February 17
- February 18 – Len Deighton, British author
- February 19 – Jacques Deray, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- February 20
- February 21
- February 22
- 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
- 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
- March 13
- 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
- March 27 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
- March 29
- March 30
April
Jane Powell
Poul Schlüter
André Previn
Jacques Brel
Max von Sydow
- April 1
- April 2 – Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (d. 2019)
- April 3 – Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2021)
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7 – Bob Denard, French soldier and mercenary (d. 2007)
- April 8 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (d. 1978)
- April 10
- April 11 – Jack Betts, American actor
- April 14
- April 17
- 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
- April 25 – Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (d. 2019)
- April 26 – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (d. 2019)
- April 27
- April 28
- April 29
- 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
- May 3 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish physician (d. 2014)
- May 4
- May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010)
- May 6
- May 8
- May 10
- May 11 – Margaret Kerry, American actress
- May 12
- May 14
- May 15 – Otar Patsatsia, Georgian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Georgia
- May 16
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- June 18 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist, philosopher
- June 20
- June 21 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
- June 23
- June 24 – Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (d. 2021)
- June 25
- June 26 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher (d. 2020)
- June 29
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
- July 5
- July 6
- July 8 – Shirley Ann Grau, American writer (d. 2020)
- July 9
- July 10 – José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan politician (d. 2020)
- July 11
- July 13 – Sofia Muratova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2006)
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20
- July 22 – Vivien Merchant, English actress (d. 1982)
- July 24 – Peter Yates, English film director and producer (d. 2011)
- July 25
- July 26 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist (d. 2012)
- July 27
- 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
August
Francis Gary Powers
Yasser Arafat
- August 1
- 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
- August 12
- 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
- August 23
- August 24
- 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
- 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
- September 10 – Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (d. 2016)
- September 11 – Eve Brent, American actress (d. 2011)
- September 15
- 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
- September 22 – Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle road racer (d. 2020)
- September 25
- September 27 – Txillardegi, Spanish linguist, politician and writer (d. 2012)
- September 28
- September 30
October
Ursula K. Le Guin
Yevgeny Primakov
- October 2
- October 5 – Richard F. Gordon Jr., American astronaut (d. 2017)
- October 6
- 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
- October 16 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
- October 18 – Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
- October 21
- 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
- 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
- November 9 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author (d. 2016)
- November 10 – Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-born Mexican actress, dancer (d. 2015)
- November 11
- November 12
- 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
- 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
- November 30 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer (d. 2012)
December
Bob Hawke
John Cassavetes
Christopher Plummer
- December 1
- December 6
- December 9
- December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese pianist and composer
- December 13 – Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
- December 14
- 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
- December 23 – Chet Baker, American jazz musician (d. 1988)
- December 28
- December 29 – Susie Garrett, African-American actress (d. 2002)
- December 31 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television presenter (d. 2018)
1930:
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January
Robert Loggia
Tippi Hedren
Buzz Aldrin
Derek Walcott
Gene Hackman
- January 1
- January 2 – Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5 – Edward Givens, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- January 6
- 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
- January 24
- January 27 – Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013)
- January 28
- January 29 – Norio Ohga, Japanese businessman (d. 2011)
- January 30
- January 31 – Jo Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
February
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
- February 1
- February 3 – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician (d. 2016)
- February 4
- February 8
- 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
- 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
- February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
- February 28
March
Tom Wolfe
Zhores Alferov
James Irwin
Steve McQueen
Anerood Jugnauth
April
Helmut Kohl
Dolores Huerta
Dick Sargent
James Baker
Carolyn Jones
- April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
- April 3
- April 5
- April 7
- April 8 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
- April 9 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
- April 10
- April 11
- 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
- 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
- April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director, writer (d. 2014)
- April 26 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete and sportscaster
- April 28
- April 29
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
- May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
- May 4
- May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
- May 8
- May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
- May 10
- May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
- May 12
- May 13
- May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
- May 18 – Don L. Lind, American astronaut (d. 2022)
- May 19
- May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
- May 22
- May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
- May 27 – John Barth, American writer
- May 28
- May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June
Pete Conrad
George Fernandes
Jim Nabors
Vilmos Zsigmond
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Claude Chabrol
- June 1
- June 2 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of Apollo 12 (d. 1999)
- June 3
- June 4
- 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
- June 10 – Ilya Glazunov, Russian artist (d. 2017)
- June 11
- June 12
- June 14
- June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
- June 19 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
- June 20
- June 22
- June 23
- June 24
- June 26 – Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d. 2016)
- June 27
- June 28
- June 29
- June 30
July
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Carlos Menem
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Biljana Plavšić
- July 1
- July 2
- July 3
- July 4
- July 5 – John Wood, English actor (d. 2011)
- July 6
- July 7
- 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
- July 17 – Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
- July 20
- 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
- August 4 – Ali al-Sistani, Shia Ayatollah
- August 5
- 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
- August 12
- 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
- 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
- August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
- August 23
- August 25
- August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
- August 28
- 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
- September 8
- September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
- September 10 – Liliana Segre, Italian politician and holocaust survivor
- September 11
- September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 13 – Jimmy McLane, American swimmer (d. 2020)
- September 14
- September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
- September 17
- September 19
- September 21 – Dawn Addams, English actress (d. 1985)
- September 23
- September 24 – John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
- September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet and humorist (d. 1999)
- September 26
- 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
November
Mildred Dresselhaus
Ed White
Bob Mathias
- November 3 – Lois Smith, American actress
- November 4
- November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
- November 11
- November 13 – Richard A. Falk, American professor emeritus
- November 14
- November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
- November 16
- November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
- November 19 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
- November 22
- 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
- December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (d. 2022)
- December 4
- December 6
- December 8 – Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
- December 9
- December 11
- 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
- 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:
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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
- January 5
- 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
- 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
- January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964)
- January 24 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (d. 2012)
- January 25
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- March 20
- March 22
- March 23
- 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
- April 7 – Daniel Ellsberg, American economist, and activist (d. 2023)
- April 8 – John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (d. 2018)
- April 11
- 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
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
- May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018)
- May 9 – Vance D. Brand, American astronaut
- May 10
- 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
- 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
- May 31
June
Raúl Castro
Marla Gibbs
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Olympia Dukakis
- June 2 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
- June 3
- 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
- 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
- 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
- June 25 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
- June 26 – Colin Wilson, English writer, philosopher and novelist (d. 2013)
- June 27
- 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
- July 4
- July 5 – James Burke, Irish-American mobster (d. 1996)
- July 6
- July 7 – David Eddings, American author (d. 2009)
- July 8 – Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
- July 10
- July 11
- July 13 – Frank Ramsey, American professional basketball player, coach (d. 2018)
- July 14
- 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
- August 3 – Vladimir Trusenyov, Russian discus thrower (d. 2001)
- August 6
- 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
- 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
- August 20 – Don King, American boxing promoter
- August 23
- August 25 – Regis Philbin, American actor, singer and television personality (d. 2020)
- August 27
- August 28 – Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer and manager (d. 2017)
- August 30 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
- August 31
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
- September 13
- September 16 – E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (d. 2018)
- September 17
- September 18 – Julio Grondona, Argentine football executive (d. 2014)
- September 19
- September 20 – Haya Harareet, Israeli actress and screenwriter (d. 2021)
- September 21
- September 22 – Fay Weldon, British author (d. 2023)
- September 24
- September 27 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, actor
- September 29
- 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
- October 13
- October 15
- October 16 – Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist (d. 2012)
- October 17
- October 19
- 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
- October 25
- 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
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
- November 4 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (d. 2017)
- November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2007)
- November 6
- November 8
- November 12 – Norman Mineta, American politician (d. 2022)
- November 15
- 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
- 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
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January
Umberto Eco
Piper Laurie
- January 3
- January 4 – Carlos Saura, Spanish film director (d. 2023)
- January 5
- 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
- February 5 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- February 6
- February 7
- February 8
- February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
- February 10 – Robert Taylor, American computer scientist (d. 2017)
- February 12
- February 13 – Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
- February 14
- February 16
- February 18 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American film director (d. 2018)
- February 19
- 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
- February 25
- 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
- March 5 – Earl Woods, African-American army officer (d. 2006)
- March 6
- March 7
- March 10
- March 11 – Leroy Jenkins, African-American jazz musician and composer (d. 2007)
- March 12 – Andrew Young, African-American politician, diplomat and activist
- March 14
- 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
May
Phyllida Law
Arnold Wesker
K. C. Jones
- May 1 – Donald Kagan, Lithuanian-born American historian (d. 2021)
- May 3
- May 6 – Antal Bolvári, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2019)
- May 7 – Pete Domenici, American politician (d. 2017)
- May 8
- 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
- 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
- May 30
June
Dudley R. Herschbach
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
Amrish Puri
Pat Morita
- June 4
- June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (d. 1981)
- June 6
- June 10
- June 11 – Athol Fugard, South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director
- June 12
- June 13
- June 14 – Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (d. 2016)
- June 15
- June 17
- June 18
- June 19
- June 20 – Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet Poet (d. 1994)
- June 21 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor
- June 22
- June 24 – Margit Korondi, Hungarian gymnast
- June 25
- 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
- July 13
- July 14
- July 16
- July 17
- July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017)
- July 20
- July 22
- 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
August
Peter O'Toole
V. S. Naipaul
Luc Montagnier
Banharn Silpa-archa
- August 1
- August 2
- 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
- August 9 – Anand Panyarachun, 18th Prime Minister of Thailand
- August 11
- August 12 – Sirikit, Queen consort of Thailand
- August 15
- 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
- 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
- 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
- September 21 – Mickey Kuhn, American child actor
- September 22
- September 25
- September 26
- September 27
- September 28 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
- September 29
- 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
- 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
- October 13
- 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
- October 21 – Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
- October 23 – Vasily Belov, Soviet-Russian writer, poet and dramatist (d. 2012)
- October 24
- October 25 – Vitold Fokin, 1st Prime Minister of Ukraine
- October 26 – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (d. 2019)
- October 27
- October 28
- 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
- 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
- November 10
- November 13
- November 15
- 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
- December 7
- 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
- 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
- December 29 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer (d. 2023)
- December 30 – Paolo Villaggio, Italian writer and actor (d. 2017)
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January
Dalida
Corazon Aquino
- January 1
- 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
- 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
- January 18
- January 21 – Habib Thiam, Senegal politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2017)
- January 23
- 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
- February 3 – Paul Sarbanes, American politician (d. 2020)
- February 5
- February 8
- February 9 – John Mitchell, English author (d. 2009)
- February 12 – Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director, writer
- February 13
- February 14 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
- February 17 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
- February 18
- 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
- February 28 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (d. 2018)
March
Michael Caine
Quincy Jones
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Philip Roth
- March 3
- 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
- March 13 – Mike Stoller, American songwriter
- March 14
- March 15
- March 17 – Penelope Lively, English writer
- March 18 – Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019)
- March 19
- March 21 – Michael Heseltine, British politician and businessman
- March 22
- March 23 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford University
- March 24 – William Smith, American actor (d. 2021)
- March 28
- 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
- April 4
- April 5 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (Batman) (d. 2005)
- April 7
- April 9
- 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
- April 15
- 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
- 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
- May 5 – Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2016)
- May 7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- July 15
- July 16 – Brad Harris, American actor and stunt performer (d. 2017)
- July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
- July 18
- 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
- July 31 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist
August
Dom DeLuise
Julie Newmar
Stuart Roosa
Roman Polanski
Tom Skerritt
- August 1
- August 2 – Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006)
- August 4 – Sheldon Adelson, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (d. 2021)
- August 7
- August 9
- August 10
- 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
- August 16
- August 17
- August 18
- August 20
- August 21 – Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
- August 22 – Sylva Koscina, Italian-Croatian actress (d. 1994)
- August 23
- August 25
- August 26 – Robert Chartoff, American film producer (d. 2015)
- August 27 – Kerstin Ekman, Swedish novelist
- August 29
September
Conway Twitty
Karl Lagerfeld
David McCallum
Samora Machel
- September 1
- 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
- September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher, author (d. 2017)
- September 10
- September 11
- September 14
- September 15
- September 17
- September 18
- 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
- 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
- October 13 – Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian film and theater director (d. 2019)
- October 17
- October 18 – Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician (d. 2018)
- October 19 – Dom Geraldo Majella, Brazilian Roman Catholic Cardinal
- October 24
- 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
- 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
December
Abel Pacheco
Emperor Akihito
- December 1
- 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
- December 26 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (d. 2019)
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January
Leonid Kravchuk
Jean Chrétien
Bill Bixby
Édith Cresson
- January 1 – Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Ecuadorian cardinal (d. 2020)
- January 4
- January 6 – Sylvia Syms, English actress
- January 7
- January 8
- January 9 – Bart Starr, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
- January 10 – Leonid Kravchuk, 1st President of Ukraine (d. 2022)
- January 11
- January 14 – Richard Briers, English actor (d. 2013)
- January 16
- 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
February
Hank Aaron
Manuel Noriega
Bill Russell
Bettino Craxi
March
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Arkin
Richard Chamberlain
Shirley Jones
- March 1 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
- March 4
- March 5
- 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
- March 14
- 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
- March 21 – Al Freeman Jr., African-American actor (d. 2012)
- March 22
- March 23 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 2017)
- March 25
- 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
April
Roman Herzog
Shirley MacLaine
- April 1
- 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
- April 29
May
Frankie Valli
Harlan Ellison
- May 3
- May 4 – Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
- May 6 – Richard Shelby, American politician
- May 9
- 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
- June 18
- 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
- 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
- July 3 – Stefan Abadzhiev, Bulgarian football player
- July 7 – Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (d. 2018)
- July 8
- 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
- July 14
- 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
- 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
- July 25 – Claude Zidi, French film director
- July 28
- 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
- August 6 – Chris Bonington, British mountaineer
- August 9 – Cynthia Harris, American actress (d. 2021)
- August 13 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2019)
- August 15
- August 16
- August 18
- August 20
- 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
- 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
- September 5 – Ricardo de la Espriella, President of Panama
- September 6 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (d. 2015)
- September 7
- September 8 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer (d. 2016)
- September 9
- 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
- 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
- September 21
- 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
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
- November 9
- November 10 – Joanna Moore, American actress (d. 1997)
- November 11
- 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
- November 23 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis champion (d. 1994)
- November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer (d. 1998)
- November 26
- 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
- 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
- December 18
- 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
- December 28
- December 29 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
- December 30
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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
- January 14 – Lucile Wheeler, Canadian skier
- January 15 – Luigi Radice, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
- January 16
- 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
- January 30
- 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
- February 17
- February 18
- 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
- March 24
- 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
- April 7 – Bobby Bare, American country singer
- April 10
- 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
- April 22
- April 25
- April 27 – Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (d. 2012)
May
Jack Charlton
Lee Meriwether
- May 2
- May 8
- 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
- May 14 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2019)
- May 15 – Don Bragg, American athlete (d. 2019)
- May 16
- 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
- June 3
- 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
- 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
- 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
- July 3
- 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
- July 9
- July 12
- July 13
- July 14 – Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021)
- July 15
- July 16 – Nicolae Rotaru, Romanian sport shooter
- July 17
- 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
- July 30 – Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco, Moroccan prince (d. 1983)
- July 31 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (d. 2015)
August
Ron Paul
Tsutomu Hata
John Phillips
Frank Robinson
- August 3
- August 5 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (d. 2017)
- August 6 – Mário Coluna, Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
- August 10
- August 12
- August 17
- August 18
- August 19 – Story Musgrave, American physician and astronaut
- August 20 – Ron Paul, American author, physician, and politician
- August 21
- 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
- August 31
September
Abdou Diouf
Chaim Topol
Jerry Lee Lewis
Johnny Mathis
- September 1
- September 2
- 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
- September 12
- September 14
- 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
- September 21
- 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
- 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
- October 3
- October 5 – Tarcísio Meira, Brazilian actor (d. 2021)
- October 6
- October 9 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
- October 12
- October 14 – La Monte Young, American composer
- October 15
- October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
- October 19 – Agne Simonsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2020)
- October 20
- 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
- October 31
November
Charles Koch
Bibi Andersson
Hussein of Jordan
Mahmoud Abbas
- November 1
- 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
- November 9 – Bob Gibson, African-American professional baseball player (d. 2020)
- November 11 – Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
- November 13
- November 14 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
- November 15
- 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
- November 22 – Ludmila Belousova, Russian pair skater (d. 2017)
- November 23
- November 24
- November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
- November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress
- November 30
December
Woody Allen
Pranab Mukherjee
Lee Remick
Salman of Saudi Arabia
- December 1
- 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
- December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (d. 2001)
- December 11
- December 14
- 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
- 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
- December 31 – King Salman of Saudi Arabia
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January
Julio María Sanguinetti
Émile Lahoud
Alan Alda
- January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)
- January 6
- January 8 – Robert May, Australian scientist (d. 2020)
- January 10
- 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
- January 23 – Arlene Golonka, American actress (d. 2021)
- January 25 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
- January 27
- January 28
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
- 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
March
F. W. De Klerk
Ursula Andress
Mario Vargas Llosa
- March 1 – Renato Corti, Italian cardinal (d. 2020)
- March 4
- March 5
- March 6
- March 7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- April 2 – Abdelhamid Brahimi, 3rd Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2021)
- April 9
- April 10 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021)
- April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
- April 14
- April 15
- April 19 – Wilfried Martens, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
- April 20
- April 22 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (d. 2017)
- April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer, songwriter (d. 1988)
- April 24
- April 28 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (d. 2015)
- April 29
May
Albert Finney
Bobby Darin
Dennis Hopper
- May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d. 2006)
- May 2
- 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
- May 12
- 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
- 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
June
Bruce Dern
Kris Kristofferson
B. J. Habibie
Kigeli V of Rwanda
- June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
- June 3
- June 4
- June 8
- June 15
- 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
- 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
- June 27
- June 28 – Leon O. Chua, American electrical engineer and computer scientist
- June 29
- June 30
July
Shirley Knight
Yasuo Fukuda
Elizabeth Dole
August
Robert Redford
Wilt Chamberlain
John McCain
- August 1
- August 5 – John Saxon, American actor (d. 2020)
- August 6 – Dražan Jerković, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 2008)
- August 12
- August 13 – Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, dancer, singer, dance choreographer and parliamentarian
- August 16 – Alan Hodgkinson, English professional footballer and coach (d. 2015)
- August 17
- August 18
- August 20
- August 21
- 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
- September 11 – Charles Dierkop, American actor
- 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
- September 26 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2018)
- September 27
- 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
- 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
- October 26 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
- October 28
- 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
- November 8
- November 9
- 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
- November 18 – Don Cherry, African-American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
- November 19
- 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
- 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
- December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d. 2018)
- December 22
- December 23
- December 25
- December 28 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
- December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer and diabetes awareness activist (d. 2017)
- December 31 – Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer
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January
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
- January 6
- 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
- January 15 – Margaret O'Brien, American actress
- January 16 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
- January 18
- 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
- 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
- January 31
February
Rupiah Banda
Nancy Wilson
Harald V of Norway
- February 1
- February 2 – Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer (d. 2015)
- February 3
- 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
- February 17
- February 19 – David Margulies, American actor (d. 2016)
- February 20
- February 21
- 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
- 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
- March 18 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist (d. 2016)
- March 19 – Egon Krenz, German politician
- March 20
- March 22
- March 23
- 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
- April 6
- 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
- April 13
- 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
- April 19
- April 20 – George Takei, Japanese-American actor, director and author (Star Trek)
- April 22
- April 24 – Joe Henderson, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
- April 26
- 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
- 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
- May 15
- May 16
- May 18
- May 21
- May 22
- May 30 – Aleksandr Demyanenko, Russian actor (d. 1999)
June
Morgan Freeman
Simeon II
Ronald Venetiaan
Martti Ahtisaari
Robert Coleman Richardson
- June 1
- June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress (d. 2022)
- June 4
- June 7 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
- June 8 – Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
- June 10
- June 11
- June 12 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
- June 13
- June 14 – Jorgen Leth, Danish poet and film director
- June 15 – Waylon Jennings, American country singer (d. 2002)
- June 16
- June 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer (d. 2009)
- June 18
- 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
- June 26
- 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
- July 3 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
- July 4
- July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist
- July 6
- July 7
- July 9 – David Hockney, English-born artist
- July 11 – Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
- July 12
- July 14 – Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
- July 16 – Richard Bryan, American attorney and politician
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20 – Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
- July 22
- 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
- July 28 – Francis Veber, French film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright
- July 29
- July 30 – Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi diplomat and politician
- July 31
August
Manuel Pinto da Costa
Dustin Hoffman
- August 3
- August 5
- August 6
- August 8
- 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
- August 22
- 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
- September 7 – John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
- September 10 – Jared Diamond, American geographer, anthropologist, and author
- September 11
- 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
- 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
- September 30
October
Jackie Collins
Bobby Charlton
- October 2 – Johnnie Cochran, African-American attorney (d. 2005)
- October 4
- October 11
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- December 4
- 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
- December 18 – Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani cleric, politician (d. 2018)
- December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
- December 22
- 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
- December 30
- December 31
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January
King Juan Carlos I of Spain
Morihiro Hosokawa
Etta James
Vladimir Vysotsky
Beatrix of the Netherlands
- January 1
- January 2
- 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
- January 7
- January 8 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian operatic singer (d. 2021)
- January 10
- January 11 – Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
- January 13
- January 14
- January 16
- 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
- January 25
- January 28
- 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
- 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
- February 13 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
- February 16 – Barry Primus, American actor, director, and writer
- February 18
- February 21 – Lester Bird, 2nd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (d. 2021)
- February 22
- February 23
- February 24
- 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
- March 5
- March 7
- March 9 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2018)
- March 14
- March 16 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentine footballer and manager
- March 17
- March 18
- March 20 – Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician
- March 21 – Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
- March 24
- March 26
- 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
- April 7
- 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
- April 20
- April 22 – Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (d. 2022)
- April 26
- April 28 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)
- April 29 – Bernie Madoff, American fraudster and financier (d. 2021)
- April 30
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
- May 8
- May 9 – Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
- May 10
- May 12
- 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
- May 22
- May 24
- May 26
- May 28 – Jerry West, American basketball player and executive
- May 31
June
Princess Désirée
July
Brian Dennehy
Diana Rigg
Natalie Wood
Terence Stamp
- July 1 – Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian classical flutist
- July 2
- 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
- July 10
- July 12 – Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
- July 14 – Moshe Safdie, Israeli-Canadian architect
- July 15 – Enrique Figuerola, Cuban sprinter
- July 18
- July 19 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
- July 20
- July 21 – Janet Reno, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (d. 2016)
- July 22 – Terence Stamp, English actor
- July 23
- July 24
- July 27 – Gary Gygax, American author, game designer (d. 2008)
- July 28
- July 29 – Peter Jennings, Canadian journalist (d. 2005)
- July 30 – Michael Bell, American actor and activist
August
Leonid Kuchma
Kenny Rogers
Paul Martin
September
Alan Dershowitz
Wim Kok
- September 1
- 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
- September 25
- September 26 – Andrey Lukanov, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1996)
- September 28
- 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
- October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 5 – Teresa Heinz, Portuguese-American businesswoman and philanthropist
- October 7
- October 8
- 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
- October 15 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician, activist (d. 1997)
- October 16 – Nico, German-American singer (d. 1988)
- October 17
- October 18 – Dawn Wells, American actress (d. 2020)
- October 22
- October 23 – John Heinz, American politician (d. 1991)
- October 25 – Bob Webster, American diver
- October 28
- October 29
- October 30
November
Queen Sofía of Spain
Jean Seberg
Ted Turner
- November 2
- November 3
- November 5
- 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
- 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
- November 26 – Porter J. Goss, American politician, Central Intelligence Agency director
- November 28 – Tom Regan, American philosopher (d. 2017)
- November 30
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
- December 13 – Heino, German singer
- December 15
- 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
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January
Sal Mineo
Abdullah Ensour
Sonny Chiba
Alfredo Palacio
- January 1
- January 3
- January 4 – Veniamin Soldatenko, Russian athlete (d. 2023)
- January 6
- January 9 – Susannah York, English actress (d. 2011)
- January 10
- January 11 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian Canadian skier
- January 15 – Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician, writer (d. 2018)
- January 17
- January 18 – Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese swimmer (d. 2017)
- January 19 – Phil Everly, American rock 'n' roll musician (d. 2014)
- January 20
- January 22
- 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
- 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
- February 10
- February 11
- February 12
- February 13
- February 15
- 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
- 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
- March 6 – Kit Bond, American politician
- March 8
- March 10 – Lee Soo-sung, 27th Prime Minister of South Korea
- March 13 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
- March 14
- 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
- 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
April
Marvin Gaye
Francis Ford Coppola
Dusty Springfield
Ali Khamenei
- April 1
- April 2 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
- April 4
- April 5 – David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (d. 2019)
- April 6 – John Sculley, American businessman, entrepreneur and investor
- April 7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- May 4
- May 7
- May 8 – Paul Drayton, American Olympic athlete (d. 2010)
- May 9
- 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
- May 19
- May 20 – Roman Kartsev, Russian actor (d. 2018)
- May 21
- May 22 – Paul Winfield, African-American actor (d. 2004)
- May 23 – Reinhard Hauff, German film director
- May 25
- May 27 – Don Williams, American musician (d. 2017)
- May 28
- 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
- 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
- June 26 – Osvaldo Hurtado, 34th President of Ecuador
- June 29 – Sante Gaiardoni, Italian cyclist (d. 2023)
- June 30
July
Mavis Staples
Karel Gott
Elena Obraztsova
John Howard
Peter Bogdanovich
- July 1
- July 2
- July 3 – Willy Vanden Berghen, Belgian road bicycle racer
- July 4
- July 6
- July 7 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (d. 2015)
- July 8
- 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
- July 15
- July 16
- July 17
- July 18
- July 21
- 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
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
- September 6 – David Allan Coe, American country singer, songwriter and musician
- September 7
- 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
- September 16 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer, painter
- September 17
- 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
- September 25 – Leon Brittan, British politician (d. 2015)
- September 28 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian actor
- September 29
- September 30
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
- October 6 – Melvyn Bragg, English media arts presenter, critic and novelist
- October 7
- 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
- October 18
- October 22
- 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
- October 28
- October 29 – Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet, and novelist (d. 2023)
- October 30
- October 31
November
Emil Constantinescu
Tina Turner
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
- November 1 – Barbara Bosson, American actress (d. 2023)
- November 2 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
- November 8
- 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
- November 18
- November 19
- November 21
- November 23 – Betty Everett, African-American soul singer, pianist (d. 2001)
- November 25 – Shelagh Delaney, English dramatist (d. 2011)
- November 26
- November 27
- 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
- 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
- December 20 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
- December 21 – Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese singer (d. 2021)
- December 23 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (d. 1992)
- December 24 – Dean Corll, American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and torturer (d. 1973)
- December 25 – Bob James, American musician
- December 26 – Phil Spector, American record producer (d. 2021)
- December 27 – John Amos, African-American actor
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January
Brian Josephson
John Hurt
James Cromwell
Carlos Slim
- January 2
- January 3 – Thelma Schoonmaker, Algerian-born American film editor
- January 4
- 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
- January 18 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
- January 19 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge and magistrate (d. 1992)
- January 20
- 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
- January 27
- January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
- January 29
- 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
- February 8 – Ted Koppel, American journalist
- February 9
- February 12 – Richard Lynch, American actor (d. 2012)
- February 15 – Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
- February 17
- 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
- February 22
- February 23 – Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019)
- February 24
- February 25
- February 27
- February 28
- 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
- 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
- March 26
- 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
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
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15
- April 16 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- April 17 – Padma Sachdev, Indian poet and novelist (d. 2021)
- April 18
- April 19 – Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist (d. 2019)
- April 20
- April 22 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (d. 2019)
- April 23 – Danilo Astori, Uruguayan politician, 15th Vice President of Uruguay (d. 2023)
- April 24
- April 25 – Al Pacino, American actor, film director
- April 26 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer
- April 29 – Peter Diamond, American economist
- April 30
May
David Koch
Lance Henriksen
Ricky Nelson
Toni Tennille
- May 2 – Manuel Esquivel, 2nd Prime Minister of Belize (d. 2022)
- May 3
- 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
- May 9 – James L. Brooks, American film producer, writer
- May 10
- May 12 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
- May 13
- May 14 – Tommy Lawrence, Scottish professional footballer (d. 2018)
- May 15
- May 16 – Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013)
- May 17 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
- May 19
- May 20
- May 21 – Tony Sheridan, British singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 2013)
- May 22 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
- May 24
- 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
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
- July 5
- July 6
- 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
- July 19
- July 20 – Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter (d. 2020)
- July 21 – Jim Clyburn, African-American politician
- July 22
- July 24
- July 26
- July 27
- July 28 – Philip Proctor, American actor
- July 30 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor (d. 2021)
August
Martin Sheen
Jean-Luc Dehaene
September
Raquel Welch
Linda Gray
Óscar Arias
Michel Temer
- September 1 – Annie Ernaux, French writer
- September 3
- September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress (d. 2023)
- September 6 – Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (d. 2019)
- September 7
- September 10 – Roy Ayers, African-American musician, songwriter
- September 11
- September 12
- September 13 – Óscar Arias, 2-time President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- September 14 – Larry Brown, American basketball player, coach
- September 15
- September 17 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
- September 18 – Frankie Avalon, American singer, actor
- September 19
- September 20
- September 22 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, writer, and singer (d. 2019)
- September 23
- 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
- October 18 – Győző Kulcsár, Hungarian fencer (d. 2018)
- October 19
- October 20 – Robert Pinsky, American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator United States Poet Laureate
- October 21
- October 23 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer (d. 2022)
- October 24 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
- October 25
- October 26 – Gennadi Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2004)
- October 27
- October 29
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
- November 11 – Barbara Boxer, American politician
- November 12 – Donald Wuerl, American archbishop
- November 13 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician (d. 2022)
- November 15
- 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
- November 22
- November 25
- November 26 – Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (d. 2019)
- November 27 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist, actor (d. 1973)
- November 29
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
- December 12
- December 19 – Phil Ochs, American protest singer (d. 1976)
- December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist (d. 1993)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25 – Alija Behmen, Bosnian politician (d. 2018)
- December 26 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
- December 29
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Miklós Kállay
Apollo 1 crew
Eddie Tolan
- January 3
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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
- 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
July
Vivien Leigh
John Coltrane
August
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Stanley Bruce
Brian Epstein
September
James Dunn
October
Che Guevara
Shigeru Yoshida
- October 3
- 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
- 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
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Antonín Novotný
February
Julian Huxley
Chivu Stoica
- February 1 – Richard Wattis, English actor (b. 1912)
- February 3
- February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
- February 8
- February 10
- February 11 – Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman (b. 1931)
- February 14
- February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
- February 17
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- April 10
- April 12 – Josephine Baker, France entertainer, activist (b. 1906)
- April 13
- 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
June
Eisaku Satō
- June 3
- 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
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
- 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 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
- 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
Saint-John Perse
- September 5 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (b. 1881)
- September 9
- 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 – 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
- October 28
- October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- October 31 – Joseph Calleia, Maltese-American actor (b. 1897)
November
Francisco Franco
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
- 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:
-
John Updike
Ingemar Johansson
- January 1
- January 3 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
- January 8 – Don Galloway, American actor (b. 1937)
- January 12
- 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
- January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
February
James Whitmore
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
- March 14
- 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
- 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
May
Dom DeLuise
Roh Moo-hyun
- May 2
- 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
- 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
- May 31
June
David Carradine
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
- June 1
- June 2 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
- June 3
- 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
- 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
- June 27 – Gale Storm, American actress (b. 1922)
- June 28 – Billy Mays, American pitchman and television host (b. 1958)
- June 30
July
Karl Malden
Walter Cronkite
Bobby Robson
- July 1
- July 3 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat (b. 1926)
- July 4
- July 6
- July 13 – Amin al-Hafez, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
- July 15 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian human rights activist (b. 1958)
- July 17
- July 18
- July 19
- 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
- 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
- September 12
- September 13 – Paul Burke, American actor (b. 1926)
- September 14
- 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
- October 4
- 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
- November 15
- November 16
- 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
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
- December 5
- December 9
- December 12
- 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
- December 17
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21 – Edwin G. Krebs, American Nobel biologist (b. 1918)
- December 23
- December 24 – Rafael Caldera, 54th and 60th President of Venezuela (b. 1916)
- December 25 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
- December 26
- December 27 – Takashi Takabayashi, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
- December 28 – The Rev, American musician (b. 1981)
- December 30
- December 31 – Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1924)
2014:
-
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
- 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
- January 10 – Zbigniew Messner, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1929)
- January 11
- January 13 – Anjali Devi, Indian actress (b. 1927)
- January 14
- January 15 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944)
- January 16
- 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
February
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shirley Temple
Sid Caesar
- February 1
- February 2
- February 3
- February 4 – Wu Ma, Chinese actor and director (b. 1942)
- February 5
- February 6 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1922)
- February 8 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988)
- February 10
- February 11 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1924)
- February 12 – Sid Caesar, American actor (b. 1922)
- February 13
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- April 18 – Ramon Malla Call, 63rd Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1922)
- April 20 – Rubin Carter, American boxer (b. 1937)
- April 24
- 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
June
Casey Kasem
Ramón José Velásquez
Ana María Matute
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
- July 10 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and dancer (b. 1912)
- July 11
- July 13
- July 14 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
- July 16 – Johnny Winter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1944)
- July 17
- July 19
- 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
- August 9
- August 11
- 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
- August 21
- 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)[citation needed]
- September 1 – Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
- September 4
- September 5
- September 6 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player (b. 1919)
- September 7 – Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (b. 1991)
- September 8
- September 9 – Bob Suter, American ice hockey player (b. 1957)
- September 10
- September 11 – Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager and record producer (b. 1930)
- September 12
- September 15
- September 17
- September 20
- September 24 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, writer, and musicologist (b. 1941)
- September 25
- 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
- October 5
- October 6
- 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
- October 23 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931)
- October 24
- 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
- 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
- November 3
- 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
- November 14
- 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
- November 24 – Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
- November 26 – Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
- November 27
- 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
2016:
-
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
- 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
- January 8
- January 10
- January 11
- January 14
- January 15 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (b. 1941)
- January 18
- 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
- January 28 – Paul Kantner, American singer and musician (b. 1941)
- January 29
- January 30
- 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
- February 8 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
- February 9 – Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
- February 13
- February 15
- February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922)
- February 17
- February 19
- February 22
- 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
- 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
- March 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
- March 8
- March 9
- March 10
- 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
- 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
- March 23 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)
- March 24
- March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas, Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928)
- March 29 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
- March 31
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
- 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
- April 16 – Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940)
- April 17 – Doris Roberts, American actress, author, and philanthropist (b. 1930)
- April 19
- April 20
- April 21
- April 23 – Banharn Silpa-archa, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1932)
- April 24
- 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
June
Muhammad Ali
Gordie Howe
Anton Yelchin
Bud Spencer
- June 2 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
- June 3
- June 4 – Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937)
- June 5 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
- June 6
- 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
- June 11 – Rudi Altig, German road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
- June 12
- 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
- June 20 – Edgard Pisani, French politician (b. 1918)
- June 23
- June 25 – Maurice G. Dantec, French writer (b. 1959)
- June 27
- June 28
- June 30 – Martin Lundström, Swedish Olympic cross country skier (b. 1918)
July
Elie Wiesel
Zygmunt Zimowski
Ursula Franklin
Piet de Jong
Fazil Iskander
August
Queen Anne of Romania
Mohammad Ali Samatar
Walter Scheel
Juan Gabriel
Gene Wilder
September
Islam Karimov
Phyllis Schlafly
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Shimon Peres
- September 1 – Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950)
- September 2
- September 3
- September 5
- September 7
- September 8
- 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
- September 17
- September 20 – Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
- September 23 – Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (b. 1938)
- September 24
- September 25
- 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
- October 9
- October 11 – Teatao Teannaki, 2nd President of Kiribati (b. 1936)
- October 12 – Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
- October 13
- October 14 – Klim Churyumov, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
- October 16
- October 20
- October 23 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
- October 24
- 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
- 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
- November 11
- November 12 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (b. 1910)
- November 13
- November 14
- November 15
- November 16
- November 17 – Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (b. 1940)
- November 18
- November 20
- November 22 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (b. 1930)
- November 23
- November 24
- November 25
- November 27 – Ioannis Grivas, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923)
- November 28
- 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
- December 6 – Peter Vaughan, British actor (b. 1923)
- December 7
- December 8
- December 10 – Esma Redžepova, Macedonian-Romani singer (b. 1943)
- December 12
- December 13
- December 14
- 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
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26 – Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30 – Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born American artist (b. 1910)
- December 31
2018:
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January
Thomas S. Monson
John Young
France Gall
Peter Sutherland
Odvar Nordli
Dolores O'Riordan
Dorothy Malone
Ingvar Kamprad
Ion Ciubuc
February
John Mahoney
Prince Henrik
Ruud Lubbers
Morgan Tsvangirai
Billy Graham
Sridevi
Quini
- February 1
- February 2
- February 3
- February 4
- February 5 – Ladislav Kačáni, Slovak footballer and coach (b. 1931)
- February 6 – Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (b. 1935)
- February 7
- February 8 – Jarrod Bannister, Australian athlete (b. 1984)
- February 9
- February 10 – Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (b. 1925)
- February 11
- February 12
- February 13
- February 14
- February 15 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (b. 1920)
- February 18
- February 19
- February 20 – Jiichiro Date, Japanese wrestler (b. 1952)
- February 21
- February 22
- February 23 – Lewis Gilbert, British film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- February 24
- 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
April
Efraín Ríos Montt
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Isao Takahata
Miloš Forman
R. Lee Ermey
Barbara Bush
Avicii
Verne Troyer
- April 1
- April 2
- April 3 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1938)
- April 4
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7 – Peter Grünberg, German Nobel physicist (b. 1939)
- April 8
- April 9 – Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff, German supercentenarian (b. 1905)
- April 12 – Sergio Pitol, Mexican novelist and translator (b. 1933)
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15
- April 16
- April 17 – Barbara Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (b. 1925)
- April 18 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1935)
- April 19
- April 20
- April 21
- April 22
- April 24 – Henri Michel, French footballer and coach (b. 1947)
- April 25
- 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
May
Tessa Jowell
Margot Kidder
Tom Wolfe
Philip Roth
Alan Bean
Dick Quax
Jens Christian Skou
- May 1
- 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
- May 9 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
- May 10
- May 11 – Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
- May 12
- May 13
- May 14
- May 15
- May 16
- May 17
- May 18 – Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Colombian cardinal (b. 1929)
- May 19
- May 20 – Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
- May 21
- May 22
- May 23 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban terrorist (b. 1928)
- May 24
- May 25 – Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
- May 26
- May 27
- May 28
June
Paul D. Boyer
Anthony Bourdain
Stanislav Govorukhin
Big Van Vader
XXXTentacion
Joe Jackson
Harlan Ellison
Arvid Carlsson
- June 1
- June 2
- June 3
- June 5 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962)
- June 6
- June 7
- June 8
- June 9
- 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
- June 14
- June 15
- June 16 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931)
- June 18
- June 19
- June 20
- June 21 – Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator (b. 1950)
- June 22
- June 23
- 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
- June 29
- 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
- July 3 – Richard Swift, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and filmmaker (b. 1977)
- July 4
- July 5
- July 6
- July 7 – Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (b. 1990)
- July 8
- July 9
- July 10
- July 11 – Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (b. 1931)
- July 12
- July 13
- July 14 – Theo-Ben Gurirab, 2nd Prime Minister of Namibia (b. 1938)
- July 15
- July 16 – Gabriel Caruana, Maltese artist (b. 1929)
- July 17 – Yvonne Blake, British-Spanish costume designer (b. 1940)
- July 18
- July 19
- July 22 – Frank Havens, French sprint canoeist (b. 1924)
- July 23
- 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
- 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
- August 2
- August 3 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (b. 1931)
- August 4 – Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor and director (b. 1940)
- August 5
- August 6
- August 7
- August 8 – Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (b. 1990)
- August 10 – László Fábián, Hungarian sprint canoeist (b. 1936)
- August 11
- August 12 – Samir Amin, Egyptian-French Marxian economist (b. 1931)
- August 13
- August 14 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- August 15 – Rita Borsellino, Italian anti-Mafia activist and politician (b. 1945)
- August 16
- 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
- August 21
- August 22 – Ed King, American musician (b. 1949)
- August 23
- 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
- August 31
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
- September 4
- September 5 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934)
- September 6
- September 7
- September 8
- September 9 – Frank Andersson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1956)
- September 10 – Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (b. 1928)
- September 11
- September 12 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer and activist (b. 1958)
- September 14 – Anneke Grönloh, Dutch singer (b. 1942)
- September 15
- September 16 – Kevin Beattie, English footballer (b. 1953)
- September 18 – Robert Venturi, American architect (b. 1925)
- September 19
- September 20 – Mohammed Karim Lamrani, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1919)
- September 21
- September 22 – Al Matthews, American actor and singer (b. 1942)
- September 23
- 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
- October 2
- October 3 – Leon M. Lederman, American Nobel physicist (b. 1922)
- October 4
- October 6
- October 7
- October 8
- October 9
- October 10
- October 11
- 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
- October 17 – Ara Güler, Turkish-Armenian photojournalist (b. 1928)
- October 18
- 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
- October 30
- 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
- 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
- November 13
- November 14
- 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
- November 21
- November 22
- November 23 – Nicolas Roeg, British film director (b. 1928)
- November 24 – Ricky Jay, American magician and actor (b. 1946)
- November 25
- November 26
- November 28
- 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
2019:
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January
Bob Einstein
Carol Channing
Henry Sy
Emiliano Sala
George Fernandes
- January 1 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1935)
- January 2
- January 4 – Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)
- January 5 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
- January 6
- January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and politician (b. 1925)
- January 9
- 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
- January 17
- 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
- January 23
- January 24 – Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
- January 25
- January 26
- January 29
- 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
- February 2 – Carol Emshwiller, American author (b. 1921)
- February 3
- February 4
- February 5 – Václav Vorlíček, Czech film director (b. 1930)
- February 6
- February 7
- February 8
- February 9
- February 10
- February 11 – Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghani politician (b. 1925)
- February 12
- February 14 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (b. 1956)
- February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
- February 16
- February 17 – Šaban Šaulić, Serbian singer (b. 1951)
- February 18
- February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
- February 20
- February 21
- February 22
- February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
- February 24
- February 25
- 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
- March 2 – Med Hondo, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1936)
- March 4
- March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (b. 1934)
- March 6 – Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (b. 1939)
- March 7
- March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1927)
- March 9
- March 10 – İrsen Küçük, Cypriot politician, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1940)
- March 11
- March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
- March 14
- March 15
- March 16
- March 17 – Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)
- March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-Russian filmaker (b. 1925)
- March 20
- March 22
- March 23
- 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
- April 2 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
- April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
- April 9
- April 10 – Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- April 12
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- April 16
- 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
- April 22
- April 23
- 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
- April 29
- April 30
May
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Doris Day
Bob Hawke
Niki Lauda
Murray Gell-Mann
- May 1 – Dinko Dermendzhiev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1941)
- May 2
- 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
- May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
- May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
- May 11
- May 12
- May 13 – Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- May 14
- May 16
- 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
- May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (b. 1929)
- May 25 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b. 1926)
- May 26
- May 27 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
- May 28
- May 30
- May 31 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
June
José Antonio Reyes
Dr. John
Franco Zeffirelli
Mohamed Morsi
Gloria Vanderbilt
- June 1
- June 2 – Ken Matthews, English race walker (b. 1934)
- June 3
- June 4
- 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
- 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
- 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
- June 23
- June 24 – Billy Drago, American actor (b. 1945)
- June 25 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
- June 26
- June 29
- June 30
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
- July 6
- July 7 – Artur Brauner, Polish-German film producer and entrepreneur (b. 1918)
- July 9
- July 10
- July 12
- July 13 – Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
- July 14
- July 16
- July 17 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)
- July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
- July 22
- July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)
- July 26
- 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
- August 3
- 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
- August 9
- August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (b. 1953)
- August 11
- August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1956)
- August 16
- August 17
- 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
- August 24
- 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
- August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (b. 1923)
- August 30
- August 31
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
- 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
- September 12 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)
- September 13
- September 15
- September 16 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (b. 1928)
- September 17
- September 18 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (b. 1976)
- September 19
- September 21
- 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
- September 28
- September 30
October
Karel Gott
Diahann Carroll
Ginger Baker
Alexei Leonov
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
- October 1
- October 2
- 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
- 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
- October 12
- 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
- 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
- October 26
- October 27
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- November 22
- November 23 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
- November 24 – Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1991)
- November 26
- November 27
- 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
- December 4
- December 5 – Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
- December 6
- December 7
- 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
- December 10
- December 11 – David Bellamy, English naturalist and author (b. 1933)
- December 12
- 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
- December 21 – Martin Peters, English footballer and manager (b. 1943)
- December 22
- December 23 – Mustafa Mujezinović, 7th Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1954)
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author (b. 1940)
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
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January
Niklaus Wirth
Saleh al-Arouri
Glynis Johns
Franz Beckenbauer
Norman Jewison
Arno Allan Penzias
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3 – Daniel Revenu, French fencer (b. 1942)
- January 4
- January 5
- January 7
- January 8
- January 9
- January 10
- 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)
- January 16
- January 17
- January 18 – Donald Adamson, British literary scholar, philosopher and historian (b. 1939)
- January 19
- January 21 – Norman Jewison, Canadian film director (b. 1926)
- January 22
- January 23
- January 24
- January 28 – Luis Tejada, Panamanian footballer (b. 1982)
- January 29 – Sandra Milo, Italian actress (b. 1933)
- January 30
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