January to March • January 17 –
Jacques Plante, ice hockey player (d.
1986) • January 20 –
Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for
Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the
Calgary Stampeders (1965) (d.
2012) • January 21 –
Bill Norrie, politician and educator,
Mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992), Chancellor of the
University of Manitoba (2001–2009), respiratory failure. (d.
2012) • January 23 –
John Polanyi, chemist and 1986
Nobel Prize in Chemistry joint laureate • January 25 –
Brian O'Neill, ice hockey executive (d.
2023) • February 12 –
Philip Kives, businessman • February 28 –
Frank Gehry, architect (d.
2025) • March 20 –
William Andrew MacKay, academic, President of
Dalhousie University (19801986) (d.
2013)
April to June • April 8 –
Garnet Bloomfield, politician (d.
2018) • April 11 –
Eric Luoma, cross-country skier (d.
2018) • May 8 –
Claude Castonguay, banker and politician (d.
2020) • May 10 •
Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright and scholar •
Peter C. Newman, journalist (d. 2023) • May 12 –
Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015) • May 13 –
Al Adair, politician, radio broadcaster and author (d.
1996) • May 14 –
Gump Worsley, ice hockey player (d.
2007) • May 16 –
Claude Morin, politician • May 18 –
Walter Pitman, educator and politician • May 28-
Shane Rimmer, actor (d.
2019 in the United Kingdom) • June 7 •
John Turner, lawyer, politician and 17th
Prime Minister of Canada •
Walter Weir, politician and 15th
Premier of Manitoba (d.
1985) • June 8 –
Louise Maheux-Forcier, author • June 9 •
Jean Rougeau, professional wrestler and bodyguard of
Quebec Premier René Lévesque (d.
1983) •
Harold R. Steele, businessman (d.
2022) • June 10 –
Pearl McGonigal, politician • June 20 –
Edgar Bronfman, Sr., businessman • June 27 –
H. Ian Macdonald, economist
July to September • July 2 –
Anna-Marie Globenski, pianist and teacher (d.
2008) • July 3 –
Béatrice Picard, actress (d.
2025) • July 4 –
Walt Konarski, Canadian football player • July 10 –
Moe Norman, golfer (d.
2004) • July 18 –
Roy Killin, footballer • July 19 –
Ronald Melzack, psychologist (d.
2019) • July 26 –
Marc Lalonde, politician and Minister (d.
2023) • July 30 –
Bill Davis, politician and 18th
Premier of Ontario • August 1 –
Sidney Green, politician • August 3 –
Peter Salmon, swimmer (d.
2003) • August 9 –
George Scott Wallace, British Columbia physician and politician (d.
2011) • August 19 –
Leonard Evans, politician • August 27 –
George Scott, professional wrestler and promoter (d.
2014) • September 14 –
Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect • September 19 –
Gertrude Story, writer and broadcaster (d.
2014) • September 24 -
Edward M. Lawson, trade unionist, politician and Senator
October to December • October 7 –
Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker and inventor who co-invented
IMAX (d.
2021) • November 1 –
Charles Juravinski, businessman and philanthropist (d.
2022) • November 2 –
Richard E. Taylor, physicist, 1990
Nobel Prize in Physics joint laureate (d.
2018) • November 21 –
Laurier LaPierre, broadcaster, journalist, author and senator (d.
2012) • November 24 –
Harry Oliver Bradley, politician • December 6 –
Harry Langford, footballer (d.
2022) • December 13 –
Christopher Plummer, actor (d.
2021) • December 15 –
Emery Barnes, Canadian football player and politician (d.
1998) • December 23 –
Patrick Watson, broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director (d.
2022) • December 28 –
Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player (d.
1970)
Full date unknown •
Ken Adachi, writer and literary critic (d.
1989) ==Deaths==