January •
January 1 •
Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th
President of Sudan (d.
2009) •
Ty Hardin, American actor (d.
2017) •
Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer (d.
2026) •
January 3 •
Robert Loggia, American actor (d.
2015) •
Ahmed Osman, Prime Minister of Morocco •
January 5 –
M. R. Srinivasan, Indian nuclear scientist (d.
2025) •
January 6 • "
Professor Tanaka" (Charles Kalani Jr.), American wrestler and actor (d.
2000) •
Vic Tayback, American actor (d.
1990) •
January 9 –
Pavel Kolchin, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d.
2010) •
January 10 –
Roy E. Disney, Disney executive (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) •
Jennifer Johnston, Irish novelist (d.
2025) •
January 15 –
Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d.
2020) •
January 19 –
Tippi Hedren, American actress •
January 20 –
Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (
Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the
Moon •
January 21 –
Mainza Chona, Zambian politician and diplomat (d.
2001) •
January 23 •
Derek Walcott, West Indian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2017) •
William Pogue, American astronaut (d.
2014) •
January 24 –
Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d.
2016) •
January 27 –
Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d.
2013) •
January 30 •
Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist (d.
2025) •
Magnus Malan, South African soldier, Minister of Defence (1980–1991) (d.
2011)
February •
February 1 •
Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th president of Bangladesh (d.
2022) •
Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th president of Bangladesh (d.
2019) •
February 3 –
Mani Krishnaswami, Carnatic music vocalist from Tamil Nadu, India (d.
2002) •
February 4 –
Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d.
2015) •
February 7 –
Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer and entrepreneur (d.
2017) •
February 8 –
Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d.
1987) •
February 10 –
Robert Wagner, American actor •
February 13 •
Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d.
2015) •
Israel Kirzner, English-born American economist, author and academic •
February 17 –
Ruth Rendell, British author (d.
2015) •
February 19 •
John Frankenheimer, American film director (d.
2002) •
K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter (d.
2023) •
February 22 –
Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d.
2016) •
February 23 –
Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (d.
2019) •
February 27 –
Joanne Woodward, American actress •
February 28 –
Leon Cooper, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2024)
March •
March 2 –
Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d.
2018) •
March 3 •
Heiner Geißler, German politician (d.
2017) •
Ion Iliescu, 2-time
President of Romania (d.
2025) •
K. S. Rajah, Singaporean Senior Counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court (d.
2010) •
March 6 •
Allison Hayes, American actress (d.
1977) •
Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d.
2014) •
March 7 •
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d.
2017) •
Daphne Osborne, English botanist (d.
2006) •
March 8 –
Douglas Hurd, English politician •
March 9 –
Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d.
2015) •
March 14 •
Irma Adelman, Romanian-born economist (d.
2017) •
Helga Feddersen, German actress (d.
1990) •
March 15 •
Alba Arnova, Italian-Argentine ballerina, actress (d.
2018) •
Zhores Alferov, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2019) •
Shadi Abdel Salam, Egyptian film director, screenwriter and costume and set designer (d.
1986) •
March 17 –
James Irwin, American astronaut (d.
1991) •
March 18 –
Adam Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate;
Archbishop of Detroit (1990–2009) •
March 19 –
Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef and restaurateur (d.
2017) •
March 20 –
Thomas Williams, New Zealand cardinal (d.
2023) •
March 22 • Sir
Lynden Pindling, 1st prime minister of the Bahamas (d.
2000) •
Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host (d.
2023) •
Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (d.
2021) •
March 24 •
David Dacko, 1st
President of the Central African Republic (d.
2003) •
Steve McQueen, American actor (d.
1980) •
March 26 –
Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
2023) •
March 27 –
Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer (d.
2024) •
March 28 •
Robert Ashley, American composer (d.
2014) •
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate •
Albert S. Ruddy, Canadian film and television producer (d.
2024) •
March 29 •
Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 3-time
Prime Minister of Mauritius, and 4th
President of Mauritius (d.
2021) •
John Marshall, Australian swimmer (d.
1957) •
March 30 •
John Astin, American actor •
Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer and convicted
sex offender (d.
2023) •
March 31 –
Julián Herranz Casado, Spanish cardinal
April •
April 1 •
Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (
Star Trek) (d.
2015) •
Ásta Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic writer and visual artist (d.
1971) •
April 3 •
Lawton Chiles, American politician,
U.S. Senator (
Florida), 41st
Governor of Florida (d.
1998) •
Helmut Kohl,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
2017) •
April 5 •
Mary Costa, American opera singer and actress •
Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (d.
2019) •
April 7 •
Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (d.
2007) •
Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (d.
2016) •
April 8 –
Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d.
2010) •
April 9 –
F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d.
2007) •
April 10 •
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer (d.
2020) •
Dolores Huerta, American labor leader and civil rights activist •
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d.
2001) •
April 11 •
Nicholas F. Brady, American politician and businessman, 68th
US Treasury Secretary •
Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (d.
1997) •
April 12 –
John Landy, Australian athlete and politician (d.
2022) •
April 14 –
Bradford Dillman, American actor and author (d.
2018) •
April 15 –
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir,
President of Iceland •
April 16 –
Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d.
2003) •
April 19 –
Dick Sargent, American actor and gay activist (d.
1994) •
April 21 –
Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d.
1989) •
April 24 •
Richard Donner, American film director and producer (d.
2021) •
José Sarney, 31st
President of Brazil •
April 25 –
Paul Mazursky, American director and writer (d.
2014) •
April 26 –
Roger Moens, Belgian athlete and sportscaster •
April 28 •
James Baker, former
United States Secretary of State and
United States Secretary of the Treasury •
Carolyn Jones, American actress (d.
1983) •
April 29 •
Jean Rochefort, French actor (d.
2017) •
Mahmud of Terengganu, 16th Sultan of Terengganu (d.
1998) •
April 30 –
Félix Guattari, French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist (d.
1992)
May •
May 1 –
Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d.
1968) •
May 3 –
Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d.
2014) •
May 4 –
Roberta Peters, American soprano (d.
2017) •
May 5 –
Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d.
1967) •
May 8 •
Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d.
2019) •
Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist and translator •
May 9 –
Joan Sims, English actress (d.
2001) •
May 11 –
Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d.
2002) •
May 13 •
Vernon Shaw, 5th president of Dominica (d.
2013) •
Mike Gravel, American politician, former Senator of Alaska and Presidential candidate (d.
2021) •
May 14 –
María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (d.
2018) •
May 15 •
Jasper Johns, American painter •
Grace Ogot, Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat (d.
2015) •
May 17 –
María Luisa Mendoza, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician (d.
2018) •
May 19 –
Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d.
1965) •
May 20 –
James McEachin, American actor (d.
2025) •
May 21 –
Malcolm Fraser, 22nd
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
2015) •
May 22 •
Kenny Ball, British jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader (d.
2013) •
Harvey Milk, American politician and gay rights activist (d.
1978) •
May 25 –
Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d.
2016) •
May 27 •
John Barth, American writer (d.
2024) •
Muhammad Lafir, Sri Lankan snooker player (d.
1981) •
May 28 –
Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th
Prime Minister of Jamaica (d.
2019) •
May 31 •
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer •
Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist, engineer (d.
1997)
June •
June 1 –
Edward Woodward, English actor and singer (d.
2009) •
June 2 –
Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of
Apollo 12 (d.
1999) •
June 3 •
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d.
1999) •
George Fernandes, Indian politician (d.
2019) •
June 4 •
Morgana King, American jazz singer, actress (d.
2018) •
Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (d.
2014) •
June 6 –
Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d.
2015) •
June 8 –
Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences •
June 9 •
Barbara, French singer (d.
1997) •
Jordi Pujol, 126th
President of the Government of Catalonia •
June 10 •
Grace Mirabella, American journalist, editor of
Vogue 1971–88 (d.
2021) •
Theo Sommer, German journalist (d.
2022) •
June 11 •
Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (d.
2019) •
Charles Rangel, African-American politician (d.
2025) •
June 12 •
Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d.
2017) •
Son Sen, Cambodian politician and war criminal (d.
1997) •
June 16 –
Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d.
2016) •
June 19 –
Gena Rowlands, American actress (d.
2024) •
June 20 •
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d.
2017) •
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military ruler (d.
1987) •
June 21 –
Gerald Kaufman, British Labour politician (d.
2017) •
June 22 •
Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d.
1998) •
Sa'dun Hammadi, 33rd prime minister of Iraq (d.
2007) •
June 23 •
J. H. Elliott, British historian (d.
2022) •
Anthony Thwaite, English poet, critic, and academic (d.
2021) •
June 24 –
Claude Chabrol, French film director (d.
2010) •
June 26 •
Wolfgang Schwanitz, German Leader of the Office for National Security, Head of the Stasi (d.
2022) •
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist and caretaker prime minister (d.
2016) •
June 27 –
Ross Perot, American business magnate, billionaire, politician, and philanthropist (d.
2019) •
June 28 •
William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist,
Nobel Prize laureate •
Itamar Franco, President of Brazil (d.
2011) •
June 29 •
Robert Evans, American producer (d.
2019) •
Viola Léger, American-Canadian actress and politician (d.
2023) •
June 30 •
Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (d.
2018) •
Thomas Sowell, American economist and social theorist •
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (d.
2021)
July •
July 1 •
Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d.
2005) •
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivian politician and businessman •
July 2 •
Sylve Bengtsson, Swedish Olympic footballer (d.
2005) •
Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist and composer (d.
2023) •
Carlos Menem,
President of Argentina (d.
2021) •
July 3 •
Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d.
2004) •
Ferdinando Riva, Swiss football forward (d.
2014) •
N. Venkatachala, Indian judge (d.
2019) •
July 4 •
George Steinbrenner, American businessman and baseball team owner (d.
2010) •
Yuriy Tyukalov, Russian rower (d.
2018) •
July 6 •
George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d.
2021) •
Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (d.
2016) •
M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor (d.
2016) •
July 7 •
Theodore McCarrick, American Roman Catholic former cardinal (d.
2025) •
Biljana Plavšić, Bosnian politician and war criminal •
July 9 –
Slavko Dacevski, Macedonian football player and manager •
July 11 •
Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer (d.
2024) •
Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d.
2019) •
July 12 –
Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor (d.
2023) •
July 14 –
Polly Bergen, American actress (d.
2014) •
July 15 •
Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader •
Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d.
2004) •
Stephen Smale, American mathematician •
July 17 •
Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d.
2019) •
Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (d.
2018) • Sir
William Heseltine, Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II •
July 19 –
David Rubadiri, Malawian diplomat, academic, poet, playwright and novelist (d.
2018) •
July 20 •
Alex Sánchez, Costa Rican football player (d.
2025) •
Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d.
2018) •
July 21 •
Gene Littler, American professional golfer (d.
2019) •
Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist •
Anand Bakshi, Indian poet/lyricist (d.
2002) •
July 22 –
Ferruccio Amendola, Italian actor and voice actor (d.
2001) •
July 24 –
Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (d.
2013) •
July 25 •
Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d.
1985) •
Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d.
2010) •
July 28 •
Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (d.
2014) •
Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d.
2006)
August •
August 1 •
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d.
2002) •
Lawrence Eagleburger,
United States Secretary of State (d.
2011) •
Károly Grósz, 51st prime minister of Hungary (d.
1996) •
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer and actor (d.
2014) •
August 4 •
Enrico Castellani, Italian painter (d.
2017) •
Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shia Ayatollah •
August 5 –
Neil Armstrong, American astronaut,
first human to set foot on the Moon, commander of
Apollo 11 (d.
2012) •
August 6 –
Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d.
2010) •
August 9 •
Carmen Balcells, Spanish literary agent (d.
2015) •
Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d.
2015) •
August 10 –
Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d.
2018) •
August 12 –
George Soros, Hungarian-born investor •
August 14 –
Liz Fraser, English actress (d.
2018) •
August 15 –
Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (probable; d.
1969) •
August 16 •
Robert Culp, American actor (d.
2010) •
Leslie Manigat, 34th
President of Haiti (d.
2014) •
Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer, actress and equestrienne (d.
2020) •
Tony Trabert, American tennis player and commentator (d.
2021) •
August 17 –
Ted Hughes, English poet (d.
1998) •
August 19 –
Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d.
2009) •
August 20 –
Jan Olszewski, 3rd
Prime Minister of Poland (d.
2019) •
August 21 –
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d.
2002) •
August 22 –
Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d.
2013) •
August 23 –
Michel Rocard,
Prime Minister of France (d.
2016) •
August 24 –
Sultanah Bahiyah, Sultanah of Kedah (d.
2003) •
August 25 • Sir
Sean Connery, Scottish actor (
James Bond) (d.
2020) •
Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (d.
2019) •
August 27 –
Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d.
1968) •
August 28 •
Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (d.
2019) •
Ben Gazzara, American actor (d.
2012) •
Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, 45th
Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (d.
2020) •
August 30 •
Warren Buffett, American billionaire
entrepreneur •
Paul Poupard, French cardinal
September •
September 1 –
Charles Correa, Indian architect (d.
2015) •
September 3 –
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand novelist (d.
2002) •
September 6 –
Salvatore De Giorgi, Italian cardinal •
September 7 • King
Baudouin I of Belgium (d.
1993) •
Sonny Rollins, African-American jazz saxophonist •
Yuan Longping, Academician of the
Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in
hybrid rice (d.
2021) •
September 8 •
Mario Adorf, German actor and writer (d.
2026) •
Jeannette Altwegg, English figure skater (d.
2021) •
September 9 –
Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d.
2019) •
September 11 –
Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d.
1997) •
September 12 –
Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate •
September 13 –
Jimmy McLane, American Olympic swimmer (d.
2020) •
September 16 –
Anne Francis, American actress (d.
2011) •
September 17 •
Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, First Lady of Ivory Coast •
David Huddleston, American actor (
The Big Lebowski) (d.
2016) •
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d.
2016) •
Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut (d.
2024) •
September 20 –
Kenneth Mopeli, Chief Minister of QwaQwa bantustan (d.
2014) •
September 23 –
Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d.
2004) •
September 24 –
John Young, American astronaut (d.
2018) •
September 25 •
Elsa Aguirre, Mexican actress •
Shel Silverstein, American author, poet and humorist (d.
1999) •
September 26 •
Philip Bosco, American actor (d.
2018) •
Alice Harnoncourt, Austrian violinist (d.
2022) •
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor singer (d.
1966) •
September 29 •
Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (d.
2017) •
Richard Bonynge, Australian pianist and conductor
October •
October 1 •
Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer (d.
2002) •
Philippe Noiret, French actor (d.
2006) •
October 2 –
Dave Barrett, Canadian politician (d.
2018) •
October 4 –
Andrej Marinc, Slovenian politician (d.
2025) •
October 5 •
Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d.
2009) •
Reinhard Selten, German economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2016) •
October 6 •
Hafez al-Assad,
President of Syria (d.
2000) •
Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator (d.
2015) •
October 8 –
Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d.
1996) •
October 10 •
Yves Chauvin, Belgian-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2015) •
Harold Pinter, English playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2008) •
October 11 –
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh (d.
2024) •
October 14 •
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d.
2006) •
Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d.
1997) •
October 17 –
Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d.
2003) •
October 18 –
Frank Carlucci, American politician (d.
2018) •
October 19 –
Ron Joyce, Canadian businessman (d.
2019) •
October 21 –
Ivan Silayev, Soviet and Russian politician (d.
2023) •
October 24 •
Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d.
2019) •
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American singer (d.
1959) •
October 27 –
Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet (d.
2019) •
October 28 –
Bernie Ecclestone, English motor racing tycoon •
October 29 •
Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer •
Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (d.
2002) •
October 30 •
Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d.
1956) •
Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d.
2002) •
October 31 –
Michael Collins, American astronaut (d.
2021)
November •
November 5 –
Hans Mommsen, German historian (d.
2015) •
November 11 •
Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist and educator (d.
2017) •
Mabandla Dlamini, 3rd prime minister of Swaziland (d.
2025) •
Alevtina Kolchina, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d.
2022) •
November 13 •
Richard A. Falk, American academic •
Fred R. Harris, American politician and United States Senator from
Oklahoma, 1964 to 1973 (d.
2024) •
November 14 •
Monique Mercure, Canadian actress (d.
2020) •
Jānis Pujats, Latvian cardinal, Archbishop of Riga •
Ed White, American astronaut (d.
1967) •
November 15 –
J. G. Ballard, English writer (d.
2009) •
November 16 •
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d.
2013) •
Salvatore Riina ("Toto"), Italian multiple murderer (d.
2017) •
November 17 –
Bob Mathias, American athlete (d.
2006) •
November 19 –
Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Austrian-German politician and philanthropist (d.
2026) •
November 20 –
Choe Yong-rim, North Korean politician •
November 22 –
Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d.
2019) •
November 24 –
Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian publisher, photographer (d.
2018) •
November 26 –
Berthold Leibinger, German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d.
2018) •
November 29 –
David Goldblatt, South African
photographer (d.
2018) •
November 30 –
G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the
Watergate burglaries (d.
2021)
December •
December 2 –
Gary Becker, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2014) •
December 3 –
Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (d.
2022) •
December 4 •
Ronnie Corbett, Scottish-born comedian (d.
2016) •
Jacqueline du Bief, French figure skater •
December 6 –
Daniel Lisulo,
Prime Minister of Zambia (d.
2000) •
December 7 –
Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-born British writer (d.
2017) •
December 8 •
Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d.
2014) •
Michael Kahn, American film editor. •
December 9 •
Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d.
2010) •
Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and director (d.
2020) •
December 11 –
Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor and director (d.
2022) •
December 12 –
Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur (d.
2024) •
December 14 –
Fred Gray, American attorney,
civil rights movement legal representative •
December 15 •
Antonietta Meo, Italian saint (d.
1937) •
Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist (d.
2024) •
December 17 –
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Russian-born German actor •
December 19 –
Anca Giurchescu, Romanian academic and
ethnochoreologist (d.
2015) •
December 21 •
Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official (d.
2018) •
Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d.
2004) •
December 25 –
Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (d.
1986) •
December 28 –
Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (d.
2010) •
December 30 •
Alvin Peterson, Jamaican percussionist (d.
2021) •
Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate •
December 31 –
Odetta, American singer (d.
2008) ==Deaths==