January to March • January 6 –
Hazen Argue, politician (d.
1991) • January 9 –
Lister Sinclair, broadcaster, playwright and polymath (d.
2006) • January 20 –
Jacques Ferron, physician and author, founder of the
Parti Rhinocéros (d.
1985) • February 8 –
Barney Danson, politician and soldier (d.
2011) • February 11 –
Johnny Fripp, skier and football player (d.
2022) • February 14 –
Hazel McCallion, politician and 5th Mayor of
Mississauga (d.
2023) • February 17 –
Muriel Coben, baseball and curling player (d.
1979) • February 21 –
George Manuel,
Aboriginal leader (d.
1989) • February 25 –
Pierre Laporte,
Quebec politician and Minister, kidnapped and murdered by
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) (d.
1970) • March 10 –
Cec Linder, actor (d.
1992) • March 27 –
Calvin Gotlieb, professor and computer scientist (d.
2016)
April to June • April 1 –
Ken Reardon, ice hockey player (d.
2008) • April 4 –
Charles Dubin, lawyer and former Chief Justice of
Ontario (d.
2008) • April 30 –
Don Jamieson, politician, diplomat and broadcaster (d.
1986) • May 5 –
Jim Conacher, ice hockey player (d.
2020) • May 12 –
Farley Mowat, conservationist and author (d.
2014) • May 31 –
Peter Fox, politician (d.
1989) • June 8 –
Alexis Smith, actress (d.
1993) • June 25 •
Yves Forest, politician (d.
2019) •
Celia Franca, ballet dancer and founder and artistic director of the
National Ballet of Canada (d.
2007)
July to December • July 1 –
Arthur Johnson, sprint canoeist (d.
2003) • July 6 –
Allan MacEachen, politician, Minister and senator, first
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d.
2017) • August 4 –
Maurice Richard, ice hockey player (d.
2000) • August 8 –
John Herbert Chapman, scientist and space researcher (d.
1979) • August 11 –
Allan Waters, businessman and media mogul (d.
2005) • August 25 –
Monty Hall, game show host, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster (d.
2017) • September 5 –
Murray Henderson, hockey player (
Boston Bruins) (d.
2013) • September 14 –
A. Jean de Grandpré, lawyer and businessman (d.
2022) • September 15 –
Norma MacMillan, voice actress (d.
2001) • September 16 –
Ursula Franklin, metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator (d.
2016) • September 29 –
James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped by the
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) (d.
2021) • November 25 –
Fraser Elliott, lawyer, supporter of the arts and philanthropist (d.
2005) • December 4 –
Deanna Durbin, singer and actress (d.
2013) • December 6 –
George Beurling, most successful Canadian fighter pilot of
World War II (d.
1948) • December 7 –
Eric Blackwood, aviator (d.
2007) • December 10 •
James Foort, inventor and artist (d.
2020) •
Howard Fredeen, scientist and animal breeding researcher (d.
2021)
Full date unknown •
Fred Davis, broadcaster and moderator of
Front Page Challenge (d.
1996) ==Deaths==