January •
January 1 –
Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (d.
2012) •
January 9 –
Alma Ziegler, professional baseball player (d.
2005) •
January 15 –
Ira B. Harkey Jr., newspaper editor (d.
2006) •
January 16 –
Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter and producer (d.
1996) •
January 17 –
George M. Leader, politician (d.
2013) •
January 19 •
Peter Hobbs, actor (d.
2011) •
John H. Johnson, African-American publisher, founder of
Ebony (d.
2005) •
January 20 –
Nevin S. Scrimshaw, food scientist (d.
2013) •
January 21 –
Richard Winters,
World War II soldier (d.
2011) •
January 23 –
Gertrude B. Elion, pharmacologist, winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d.
1999) •
January 24 –
Oral Roberts, neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d.
2009) •
January 25 –
Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster (d.
2010) •
January 26 •
Philip José Farmer, writer (d.
2009) •
Vito Scotti, actor (d.
1996) •
January 27 –
Elmore James, musician (d.
1963) •
January 29 –
John Forsythe, actor (
Dynasty) (d.
2010) •
January 31 –
Millie Dunn Veasey, African-American civil rights activist and World War II soldier (d.
2018)
February •
February 3 •
Millie Bailey, World War II veteran and civil servant (d.
2022) •
Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the "
Rat Pack" (d.
2007) •
Martin Greenberg, American poet and translator (d.
2021) •
Helen Stephens, American athlete (d.
1994) •
February 8 •
Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler, novelty singer (
Pencil Neck Geek) (d.
2003) •
Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the
New Jersey Casino Control Commission (d.
2001) •
February 12 –
Julian Schwinger, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1994) •
February 15 •
Allan Arbus, American actor (
M*A*S*H) (d.
2013) •
William T. Young, American businessman (d.
2004) •
February 16 –
Patty Andrews, American singer (
The Andrews Sisters) (d.
2013) •
February 17 –
William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999) •
February 19 –
Fay McKenzie, American silent film actress (d.
2019) •
February 21 –
Robert E. Thacker, American aviator and test pilot (d.
2020) •
February 22 •
Charlie Finley, American businessman (d. 1996) •
Don Pardo, American television announcer (
Saturday Night Live) (d.
2014) •
Robert Pershing Wadlow, American tallest man record-holder (d.
1940) •
February 25 •
Barney Ewell, athlete (d.
1996) •
Bobby Riggs, tennis player (d.
1995) •
February 26 •
Otis R. Bowen, politician (d.
2013) •
Theodore Sturgeon, writer (d.
1985)
March •
March 1 –
James N. Morgan, economist (d.
2018) •
March 3 –
Arthur Kornberg, biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2007) •
March 4 –
Margaret Osborne duPont, American female tennis player (d.
2012) •
March 5 –
James Tobin, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002) •
March 8 –
Mendel L. Peterson, American underwater archaeologist (d.
2003) •
March 9 •
Marguerite Chapman, American actress (d.
1999) •
George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d.
1967) •
Mickey Spillane, American writer (d.
2006) •
March 11 –
Jack Coe, American evangelist (d.
1956) •
March 12 –
Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d.
1989) •
March 13 –
Eddie Pellagrini, American baseball player, coach (d.
2006) •
March 15 –
Richard Ellmann, American
literary biographer (d.
1987) •
March 16 –
Frederick Reines, American physicist, winner of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 (d.
1998) •
March 17 –
Ross Bass, American politician (d.
1993) •
March 18 –
Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d.
2005) •
March 20 –
Jack Barry, American television game show host, producer (d.
1984) •
March 23 •
Helene Hale, American politician (d.
2013) •
Stick McGhee, American
jump blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d.
1961) •
March 25 –
Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d.
1995) •
March 26 –
Lloyd McCuiston, American politician •
March 28 –
Alberto Valdés, American artist (d. 1998) •
March 29 •
Pearl Bailey, African-American singer, actress (d.
1990) •
Shirley Jameson, American female baseball player (d.
1993) •
Sam Walton, founder of
Wal-Mart (d.
1992)
April •
April 1 –
Milt Earnhart, American politician (d.
2020) •
April 4 –
Joseph Ashbrook, American astronomer (d.
1980) •
April 7 –
Bobby Doerr, American baseball player (d.
2017) •
April 8 •
Betty Ford,
First Lady of the United States,
Second Lady of the United States (d.
2011) •
Charles P. Roland, American historian (d.
2022) •
April 14 –
Mary Healy, American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d.
2015) •
April 15 •
Louis O. Coxe, writer (d. 1993) •
Edmund Jones, politician (d.
2019) •
April 17 •
William Holden, actor (d.
1981) •
Anne Shirley, actress (d.
1993) •
April 18 –
Clifton Hillegass, author, founder of
CliffsNotes (d.
2001) •
April 20 –
Edward L. Beach Jr., naval captain and author (d.
2002) •
April 22 •
Mickey Vernon, baseball player (d.
2008) •
William Jay Smith, American poet (d.
2015) •
April 24 –
Lou Dorfsman, graphic designer (d.
2008) •
April 27 –
John Rice, baseball umpire (d.
2011) •
April 28 •
Mildred Persinger, feminist (d.
2018) •
Rodger Young,
United States Army soldier, remembered in the song "
The Ballad of Rodger Young" (d.
1943) •
April 29 –
George Allen, American football coach (d.
1990)
May •
May 1 –
Jack Paar, American television show host (
The Tonight Show) (d.
2004) •
May 3 –
Richard Dudman, American reporter, editorial writer (
St. Louis Post-Dispatch) (d.
2017) •
May 9 •
Russell M. Carneal, American politician, judge (d.
1998) •
Orville Freeman, American politician (d.
2003) •
Mike Wallace, American journalist (d.
2012) •
May 10 •
T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician (d.
2018) •
Jane Mayhall, American poet and novelist (d.
2009) •
George Welch, U.S. soldier and pilot (d.
1954) •
May 11 •
Richard Feynman, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 (d.
1988) •
Phil Rasmussen, pilot (d.
2005) •
May 12 –
Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d.
1953) •
May 15 –
Eddy Arnold, country singer (d.
2008) •
May 17 –
A. C. Lyles, film producer (d.
2013) •
May 18 •
Claudia Bryar, actress (d.
2011) •
Joe Krush, illustrator (d.
2022) •
May 20 –
Edward B. Lewis, geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2004) •
May 21 –
Lloyd Hartman Elliott, educator, president of
George Washington University (d.
2013) •
May 23 •
Frank Mancuso, major league baseball player, politician (d.
2007) •
Naomi Replansky, poet (d.
2023)
June •
June 2 –
Kathryn Tucker Windham, writer, storyteller (d.
2011) •
June 4 –
Johnny Klein, drummer (d.
1997) •
June 6 –
Edwin G. Krebs, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 (d.
2009) •
June 8 •
Robert Preston, actor and singer (d.
1987) •
John D. Roberts, chemist and academic (d.
2016) •
John H. Ross, pilot (d.
2013) •
June 9 –
John Hospers, philosopher (d.
2011) •
June 10 –
Wood Moy, actor (d.
2017) •
June 12 •
Samuel Z. Arkoff, film producer (d.
2001) •
Georgia Louise Harris Brown, architect (d.
1999) •
Jerry A. Moore Jr., politician (d.
2017) •
June 13 –
Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut, Theme park creator and entrepreneur (d.
2011) •
June 18 •
Jerome Karle, chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2013) •
Lillian Ross, journalist on
The New Yorker (d.
2017) •
Elisabeth Waldo, violinist and composer (d.
2026) •
June 21 •
Dee Molenaar, mountaineer, author and artist (d.
2020) •
Robert V. Roosa, American economist and banker (d.
1993) •
Josephine Webb, engineer (d.
2017) •
June 25 –
Sid Tepper, songwriter (d.
2015) •
June 26 –
Raleigh Rhodes, combat fighter pilot (d.
2007) •
June 27 –
Adolph Kiefer, Olympic champion swimmer (d.
2017) •
June 28 –
Marshall Brown, professional basketball player (d.
2008) •
June 29 •
Gene La Rocque, U.S. admiral (d.
2016) •
Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general (d.
2019)
July •
July 1 –
Ralph Young, American singer, actor (d.
2008) •
July 3 •
Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d.
2006) •
Shirley Adelson Siegel, American activist and lawyer (d.
2020) •
Ben Thompson, American architect and designer (d. 2002) •
July 4 •
Joe Fortunato, American football, basketball, and baseball coach (d.
2004) •
Eppie Lederer, American journalist and radio host (d. 2002) •
Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d.
1984) •
Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, creator of
Dear Abby (d. 2013) •
July 5 –
George Rochberg, American composer (d.
2005) •
July 6 •
J. Dewey Daane, American economist (d.
2017) •
Herm Fuetsch, American professional basketball player (d.
2010) •
July 7 –
Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d.
2016) •
July 8 •
Edward B. Giller, U.S. major general (d.
2017) •
Bela E. Kennedy, American politician (d.
2008) •
Craig Stevens, American actor (d.
2000) •
Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th
United States Secretary of the Navy (d.
2009) •
July 10 •
Chuck Stevens, American major baseball (d.
2018) •
Frank L. Lambert, American professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College (d.
2018) •
July 12 •
Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist (d.
2022) •
Alice Van-Springsteen, American stuntwoman, jockey (d.
2008) •
Vivian Mason, actress (d.
2009) •
Paul Stenn, American football offensive tackle (d.
2003) •
July 14 •
Jay Wright Forrester, computer engineer, systems scientist (d.
2016) •
Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter (d. 2011) •
July 16 –
Leonard T. Schroeder, colonel (d.
2009) •
July 17 –
Chandler Robbins, ornithologist (d.
2017) •
July 18 •
James Duesenberry, economist (d.
2009) •
Warren Hair, professional basketball player (d.
2006) •
July 20 •
Edward S. Little, diplomat (d.
2004) •
Cindy Walker, songwriter, country singer (d.
2006) •
July 22 –
Stanley Lebergott, government economist (d.
2009) •
July 23 •
Carl T. Langford, politician (d.
2011) •
Pee Wee Reese, baseball player (d.
1999) •
July 24 •
Irving London, hematologist and geneticist (d.
2018) •
Ruggiero Ricci, violinist (d.
2012) •
July 25 –
Jane Frank, artist (d.
1986) •
July 26 –
Marjorie Lord, actress (d.
2015) •
July 27 –
Leonard Rose, cellist (d.
1984) •
July 29 –
Edwin O'Connor, novelist,
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d.
1968) •
July 30 •
John L. Cason, actor (d.
1961) •
Jimmy Robinson, actor (d.
1967) •
July 31 •
Paul D. Boyer, chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2018) •
Hank Jones, pianist (d.
2010)
August •
August 3 –
Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d.
1999) •
August 6 –
Charles Coulston Gillispie, American historian (d.
2015) •
August 9 –
Robert Aldrich, American writer and filmmaker (d.
1983) •
August 12 –
Roy C. Bennett, American songwriter (d.
2015) •
August 13 –
Tao Porchon-Lynch, American yoga master and author (d.
2020) •
August 19 –
Oliver Brown, African-American plaintiff (d.
1961) •
August 20 –
Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d.
1974) •
August 21 –
Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d.
2010 in Israel) •
August 22 –
Martin Pope, American physical chemist (d.
2022) •
August 23 –
Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019) •
August 25 –
Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d.
1990) •
August 26 •
Hutton Gibson, American religion writer, father of actor
Mel Gibson (d. 2020) •
Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020) •
August 27 –
Simeon Booker, American journalist (d.
2017) •
August 30 –
Ted Williams, American baseball player (d.
2002) •
August 31 •
Griffin Bell, American politician (d.
2009) •
Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986) •
Kenny Washington, African-American football player (d.
1971)
September •
September 1 –
James D. Martin, American politician (d.
2017) •
September 3 –
Helen Wagner, American soap opera actress (d.
2010) •
September 4 •
Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d.
2009) •
Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (d.
2014) •
September 5 -
Fred McCarthy, cartoonist (d.
2009) •
September 6 –
Hugh Gillis, American politician (d.
2013) •
September 13 •
Ray Charles, American musician, singer and songwriter (d.
2015) •
Rosemary Kennedy, sister of
John F. Kennedy (d.
2005) •
September 15 –
Nipsey Russell, African-American comedian (d.
2005) •
September 19 –
Joseph Zeller, American politician (d.
2018) •
September 21 –
John Gofman, American
Manhattan Project scientist, advocate (d.
2007) •
September 26 •
Harry Yee, bartender (d.
2022) •
John Zacherle, television and radio host, singer, and voice actor (d.
2016) •
September 28 –
Arnold Stang, comic actor (d.
2009)
October •
October 4 –
Adrian Kantrowitz, American cardiac surgeon (d.
2008) •
October 9 –
E. Howard Hunt, American
Watergate break-in coordinator (d.
2007) •
October 13 –
Robert Walker, American actor (d.
1951) •
October 17 –
Rita Hayworth, American actress (d.
1987) •
October 18 –
Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter and actor, known for his role in
Emergency! (d.
1999) •
October 19 –
Robert S. Strauss, American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d.
2014) •
October 22 –
Fred Caligiuri, American baseball player (d.
2018) •
October 23 •
Augusta Dabney, American actress (d.
2008) •
Paul Rudolph, American architect (d.
1997) •
October 25 –
Milton Selzer, American actor (d.
2006) •
October 27 –
Teresa Wright, American actress (d.
2005) •
October 29 –
Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), American silent film child actress (d.
2020) •
October 31 –
Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d.
2007)
November •
November 3 •
Bob Feller, American baseball player (d.
2010) •
Ann Hutchinson Guest, American movement, dance researcher (d.
2022) •
Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d.
2007) •
Russell B. Long, United States Senator from Louisiana (d.
2003) •
Dean Riesner, American film, television screenwriter (d.
2002) •
November 4 •
Art Carney, American actor, best known for his role in
The Honeymooners (d.
2003) •
Cameron Mitchell, American actor, best known for his role in
The High Chaparral (d.
1994) •
November 7 •
Fred Cusick, American ice hockey broadcaster (d.
2009) •
Billy Graham, evangelist (d.
2018) •
November 8 –
Bob Schiller, American screenwriter (d.
2017) •
November 9 •
Spiro Agnew, 39th
vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973 (d.
1996) •
Thomas Ferebee, United States Air Force colonel (d.
2000) •
November 10 –
John Henry Moss, American baseball executive, politician (d.
2009) •
November 11 •
Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (d.
1997) •
Louise Tobin, American singer (d.
2022) •
November 21 –
Dorothy Maguire, American professional baseball player (d.
1981) •
November 28 –
Jack H. Harris, American film producer, distributor and actor (d.
2017) •
November 29 –
Madeleine L'Engle, children's fiction writer (d.
2007) •
November 30 –
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d.
2014)
December •
December 6 –
Nick Drahos, American football player (d.
2018) •
December 10 –
Anne Gwynne, American actress (d.
2003) •
December 11 –
John W. Reed, American legal scholar (d.
2018) •
December 12 –
Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d.
1999) •
December 14 –
Jack Cole, American cartoonist (d.
1958) •
December 15 –
Jeff Chandler, American actor (d.
1961) •
December 17 –
Dusty Anderson, American actress and model (d.
2007) •
December 18 –
Hal Kanter, American comedy writer, producer and director (d.
2011) •
December 20 –
Joseph Payne Brennan, poet and author (d.
1990 in the United States1990) •
December 21 •
Fred Gloden, American football player (d.
2019) •
Donald Regan, American
Treasury Secretary,
White House Chief of Staff (d.
2003) •
December 24 –
Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer and arranger (d.
2019) •
December 25 •
Henry Hillman, American businessman and philanthropist (d.
2017) •
George S. Vest, American diplomat (d.
2021) •
December 26 –
Butch Ballard, American jazz drummer (d.
2011) •
December 29 –
Leo J. Dulacki, American general (d.
2019) •
December 31 •
Al Lakeman, Major League Baseball catcher (d.
1976) •
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-American author (d.
2018)
Undated •
Nat Jaffe, swing jazz pianist (d.
1945) •
Sol Malkoff, calligrapher and designer (d.
2001) == Deaths ==