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List
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
Sergio Leone
, Italian director (d.
1989
)
Gordon Moore
, American computing entrepreneur, benefactor (d.
2023
)
January 4
Amitai Etzioni
, German-born American sociologist
Günter Schabowski
, official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (d.
2015
)
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
Brian Friel
, Irish dramatist (d.
2015
)
Heiner Müller
, German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director (d.
1995
)
January 11
Nureddin al-Atassi
, 54th Prime Minister of Syria, and 17th
President of Syria
(d.
1992
)
Rafael Eitan
, Israeli politician (d.
2004
)
Wanda Wiłkomirska
, Polish violinist (d.
2018
)
January 12
Alasdair MacIntyre
, Scottish philosopher
Jaakko Hintikka
, Finnish philosopher and logician (d.
2015
)
January 13
–
Aureliano Chaves
, Brazilian politician, 19th
Vice President of Brazil
(d.
2003
)
January 14
Aleksandar Petrović
, French-born Serbian & Yugloslav film director (d.
1994
)
Kim Young-sam
, 7th
President of South Korea
(d.
2015
)
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
Arte Johnson
, American actor and comedian (d.
2019
)
Jean-Jacques Perrey
, French electronic music producer (d.
2016
)
January 23
Patriarch Filaret
, former Patriarch of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate
John Polanyi
, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
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
Acker Bilk
, British clarinetist (d.
2014
)
Edith M. Flanigen
, American chemist
Claes Oldenburg
, American artist (d.
2022
)
January 29
–
Elio Petri
, Italian political filmmaker (d.
1982
)
January 30
–
Isamu Akasaki
, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate (d.
2021
)
January 31
Rudolf Mössbauer
, German physicist and Nobel laureate (d.
2011
)
Jean Simmons
, English-American actress (d.
2010
)
February
Vic Morrow
Alejandro Jodorowsky
James Hong
Alexy II
Frank Gehry
February 2
Věra Chytilová
, Czech director (d.
2014
)
John Henry Holland
, American computer scientist (d.
2015
)
February 4
–
Jerry Adler
, American actor
February 5
Hal Blaine
, American drummer and session musician (d.
2019
)
Luc Ferrari
, French composer (d.
2005
)
Fred Sinowatz
, 18th Chancellor of Austria (d.
2008
)
February 6
Pierre Brice
, French actor (d.
2015
)
Sixten Jernberg
, Swedish cross-country skier (d.
2012
)
February 8
Roger Byrne
, English footballer (d.
1958
)
Claude Rich
, French actor (d.
2017
)
February 10
Hallgeir Brenden
, Norwegian athlete (d.
2007
)
Jerry Goldsmith
, American composer, conductor (d.
2004
)
February 14
–
Vic Morrow
, American actor, director (
Combat
) (d.
1982
)
February 15
Graham Hill
, English racing driver (d.
1975
)
James R. Schlesinger
, American politician (d.
2014
)
February 16
–
Kazimierz Kutz
, Polish film director and politician (d.
2018
)
February 17
Alejandro Jodorowsky
, Chilean-French director and screenwriter
Chaim Potok
, American author and rabbi (d.
2002
)
Patricia Routledge
, English actress, singer
February 18
–
Len Deighton
, British author
February 19
–
Jacques Deray
, French film director and screenwriter (d.
2003
)
February 20
Amanda Blake
, American actress (d.
1989
)
Toshiro Mayuzumi
, Japanese composer (d.
1997
)
February 21
James Beck
, English actor (d.
1973
)
Chespirito
(Roberto Gómez Bolaños), Mexican actor, comedian (d.
2014
)
February 22
James Hong
, Chinese-American actor, director
Rebecca Schull
, American actress
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
Mithat Bayrak
, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer (d.
2014
)
Mordechai Eliyahu
, Israeli rabbi, posek, and spiritual leader (d.
2010
)
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
Desmond Hoyte
, 3rd
Prime Minister of Guyana
, 4th
President of Guyana
(d.
2002
)
Zillur Rahman
,
President of Bangladesh
(d.
2013
)
March 13
Mateja Matevski
, Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator (d.
2018
)
Paek Nam-sun
, North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d.
2007
)
Joseph Mascolo
, American musician, actor (d.
2016
)
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
Sir Roger Bannister
, British athlete (d.
2018
)
Mark Rydell
, American film director and producer
March 27
–
Anne Ramsey
, American actress (d.
1988
)
March 29
Utpal Dutt
, Indian actor, director and writer (d.
1993
)
Richard Lewontin
, American biologist, geneticist and academic (d.
2021
)
Lennart Meri
,
President of Estonia
(d.
2006
)
March 30
Richard Dysart
, American actor (d.
2015
)
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
, Soviet-born Israeli mathematician (d.
2009
)
April
Jane Powell
Poul Schlüter
André Previn
Jacques Brel
Max von Sydow
April 1
Milan Kundera
, Czech writer (d.
2023
)
Jane Powell
, American actress, dancer (d.
2021
)
April 2
–
Frans Andriessen
, Dutch politician (d.
2019
)
April 3
–
Poul Schlüter
, 22nd
Prime Minister of Denmark
(d.
2021
)
April 5
Hugo Claus
, Belgian author (d.
2008
)
Ivar Giaever
, Norwegian-American physicist
Nigel Hawthorne
, English actor (d.
2001
)
Joe Meek
, English record producer, sound engineer, and songwriter (d.
1967
)
April 6
André Previn
, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (d.
2019
)
Christos Sartzetakis
, 4th
President of Greece
(d.
2022
)
April 7
–
Bob Denard
, French soldier and mercenary (d.
2007
)
April 8
–
Jacques Brel
, Belgian singer (d.
1978
)
April 10
Yozo Aoki
, Japanese footballer (d.
2014
)
Mike Hawthorn
, British racing driver (d.
1959
)
Liz Sheridan
, American actress (d.
2022
)
Max von Sydow
, Swedish actor (d.
2020
)
April 11
–
Jack Betts
, American actor
April 14
Gerry Anderson
, British puppeteer and TV producer (d.
2012
)
Chadli Bendjedid
, 3rd
President of Algeria
(d.
2012
)
Paavo Berglund
, Finnish conductor, violinist (d.
2012
)
William E. Thornton
, American astronaut (d.
2021
)
April 17
James Last
, German composer (d.
2015
)
Józef Pińkowski
, Polish politician, 50th
Prime Minister of Poland
(d.
2000
)
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
Rajkumar
, Indian actor and singer (d.
2006
)
Shammi
, Indian actress (d.
2018
)
April 25
–
Yvette Williams
, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (d.
2019
)
April 26
–
Jerzy Turonek
, Polish-Belarusian historian (d.
2019
)
April 27
Michael Harner
, American anthropologist, author (d.
2018
)
Nina Ponomaryova
, Russian Olympic discus thrower (d.
2016
)
April 28
Bhanu Athaiya
, Indian costume designer (d.
2020
)
Evangelina Elizondo
, Mexican actress (d.
2017
)
April 29
Walter Kempowski
, German writer (d.
2007
)
Peter Sculthorpe
, Australian composer (d.
2014
)
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
Eddie Garcia
, Filipino actor and director (d.
2019
)
Link Wray
, American rock and roll musician (d.
2005
)
Édouard Balladur
, 91st
Prime Minister of France
May 3
–
Per-Ingvar Brånemark
, Swedish physician (d.
2014
)
May 4
Manuel Contreras
, Chilean general (d.
2015
)
Ronald Golias
, Brazilian comedian and actor (d.
2005
)
Audrey Hepburn
, Belgian-born British actress and humanitarian (d.
1993
)
May 5
–
Ilene Woods
, American singer, actress (d.
2010
)
May 6
Hans Beck
, German inventor (d.
2009
)
Paul Lauterbur
, American chemist and Nobel laureate (d.
2007
)
May 8
Girija Devi
, Indian singer (d.
2017
)
Miyoshi Umeki
, Japanese-American actress and singer (d.
2007
)
Jane Roberts
, American writer (d.
1984
)
John C. Bogle
, American investor (d.
2019
)
May 10
Audun Boysen
, Norwegian athlete (d.
2000
)
George Coe
, Americana actor (d.
2015
)
Sándor Kányádi
, Hungarian poet, translator (d.
2018
)
May 11
–
Margaret Kerry
, American actress
May 12
Ágnes Heller
, Hungarian philosopher (d.
2019
)
Sam Nujoma
, 1st
President of Namibia
May 14
Henry McGee
, English actor (d.
2006
)
Gump Worsley
, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d.
2007
)
May 15
–
Otar Patsatsia
, Georgian politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Georgia
May 16
Betty Carter
, African-American jazz singer (d.
1998
)
John Conyers
, African-American politician (d.
2019
)
Adrienne Rich
, American poet, essayist (d.
2012
)
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 (d.
2024
)
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
James H. Billington
, American academic and author (d.
2018
)
Nargis Dutt
, Indian actress (d.
1981
)
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
James McDivitt
, American astronaut (d.
2022
)
E. O. Wilson
, American biologist (d.
2021
)
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
Tigran Petrosian
, Armenian-Soviet chess Grandmaster (d.
1984
)
James Shigeta
, Japanese-American actor (d.
2014
)
June 18
–
Jürgen Habermas
, German sociologist, philosopher
June 20
Bonnie Bartlett
, American actress
Edith Windsor
, American LGBT rights activist (d.
2017
)
June 21
–
Abdel Halim Hafez
, Egyptian singer and actor (d.
1977
)
June 23
June Carter Cash
, American singer (d.
2003
)
Claude Goretta
, Swiss television producer, film director (d.
2019
)
Henri Pousseur
, Belgian composer, teacher, and music theorist (d.
2009
)
June 24
–
Carolyn S. Shoemaker
, American astronomer (d.
2021
)
June 25
Eric Carle
, American designer, illustrator, and writer (d.
2021
)
Francesco Marchisano
, Italian Cardinal (d.
2014
)
June 26
–
Milton Glaser
, American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher (d.
2020
)
June 29
Pat Crawford Brown
, American actress (d.
2019
)
Oriana Fallaci
, Italian journalist, author (d.
2006
)
Pete George
, American weightlifter (d.
2021
)
Eberhard Jäckel
, German historian (d.
2017
)
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
Al Davis
, American football coach and executive (d.
2011
)
Darío Castrillón Hoyos
, Colombian Catholic cardinal (d.
2018
)
July 5
Mary Maxwell Gates
, American businesswoman (d.
1994
)
Katherine Helmond
, American actress (d.
2019
)
Chikao Ōtsuka
, Japanese actor, voice actor and father of
Akio Ōtsuka
(d.
2015
)
July 6
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
, secretary of the Académie française, historian specializing in Russian history
Jean-Pierre Mocky
, French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer (d.
2019
)
July 8
–
Shirley Ann Grau
, American writer (d.
2020
)
July 9
King
Hassan II of Morocco
(d.
1999
)
Chi Haotian
, Chinese general
Lee Hazlewood
, American country and pop singer (d.
2007
)
Isabel Sarli
, Argentine actress and model (d.
2019
)
July 10
–
José Vicente Rangel
, Venezuelan politician (d.
2020
)
July 11
Sandy Frank
, American television producer
David Kelly
, Irish actor (d.
2012
)
July 13
–
Sofia Muratova
, Soviet artistic gymnast (d.
2006
)
July 18
Dick Button
, American figure skater
Adelaide Tambo
, South African anti-apartheid activist, politician (d.
2007
)
July 19
Gaston Glock
, Austrian inventor, businessman (d.
2023
)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
, French historian
July 20
Mike Ilitch
, American entrepreneur (d.
2017
)
Rajendra Kumar
, Indian actor (d.
1999
)
July 22
–
Vivien Merchant
, English actress (d.
1982
)
July 24
–
Peter Yates
, English film director and producer (d.
2011
)
July 25
Vasily Shukshin
, Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (d.
1974
)
Manuel Olivencia
, Spanish economist, diplomat (d.
2018
)
Somnath Chatterjee
, Indian politician (d.
2018
)
July 26
–
Alexis Weissenberg
, Bulgarian-born French pianist (d.
2012
)
July 27
Jean Baudrillard
, French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist and political commentator (d.
2007
)
Harvey Fuqua
, African-American singer, songwriter, and record producer (d.
2010
)
Jack Higgins
, British novelist
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
Don Murray
, American actor (d.
2024
)
José Santamaría
, Uruguayan footballer and manager
August
Francis Gary Powers
Yasser Arafat
August 1
Leila Abashidze
, Georgian actress, director and writer (d.
2018
)
Hafizullah Amin
, Afghan politician, statesman (d.
1979
)
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
Ronnie Biggs
, British criminal (d.
2013
)
Gudrun Burwitz
, German politician, activist (d.
2018
)
Luis García Meza
, 68th President of Bolivia (d.
2018
)
Josef Suk
, Czech composer and violinist (d.
2011
)
August 12
Charles Moore
, American athlete (d.
2020
)
Buck Owens
, American singer, bandleader, and TV host (d.
2006
)
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
Vyacheslav Ivanov
, Russian philologist and semiotician (d.
2017
)
Ahmed Kathrada
, South African politician, political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist (d.
2017
)
John McMartin
, American actor (d.
2016
)
Marie Severin
, American comics artist, colorist (d.
2018
)
August 23
Zoltán Czibor
, Hungarian footballer (d.
1997
)
Vera Miles
, American actress
Peter Thomson
, Australian professional golfer (d.
2018
)
August 24
Yasser Arafat
, Palestinian leader, Nobel laureate (d.
2004
)
Alix, Princess of Ligne
, Princess of Luxembourg (d.
2019
)
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
"Mad Dog" Vachon
, Canadian professional wrestler (d.
2013
)
Květa Fialová
, Czech actress (d.
2017
)
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
Claude Nougaro
, French singer (d.
2004
)
Ruth Pfau
, German-Pakistani nun and physician (d.
2017
)
September 10
–
Arnold Palmer
, American professional golfer (d.
2016
)
September 11
–
Eve Brent
, American actress (d.
2011
)
September 15
John Julius Norwich
, British historian, travel writer and television personality (d.
2018
)
Murray Gell-Mann
, American physicist and Nobel laureate (d.
2019
)
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
Sándor Kocsis
, Hungarian footballer (d.
1979
)
Bernard Williams
, English philosopher (d.
2003
)
September 22
–
Carlo Ubbiali
, Italian motorcycle road racer (d.
2020
)
September 25
Ronnie Barker
, English actor, comedian and writer (d.
2005
)
Barbara Walters
, American journalist (d.
2022
)
September 27
–
Txillardegi
, Spanish linguist, politician and writer (d.
2012
)
September 28
Lata Mangeshkar
, Indian singer (d.
2022
)
Nikolai Ryzhkov
, Soviet and Russian politician (d.
2024
)
September 30
Kjell Askildsen
, Norwegian writer (d.
2021
)
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (d.
2021
)
Kazuko, Princess Taka
, third daughter of
Emperor Shōwa
(d.
1989
)
October
Ursula K. Le Guin
Yevgeny Primakov
October 2
Moses Gunn
, African-American actor (d.
1993
)
Hong Song-nam
, 8th Premier of North Korea (d.
2009
)
October 5
–
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
, American astronaut (d.
2017
)
October 6
Bruno Cremer
, French actor (d.
2010
)
Karin Lindberg
, Swedish gymnast (d.
2020
)
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
Hubert Dreyfus
, American philosopher (d.
2017
)
Nikodim
, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d.
1978
)
Milorad Pavić
, Serbian writer (d.
2009
)
October 16
–
Fernanda Montenegro
, Brazilian actress
October 18
–
Violeta Chamorro
,
President of Nicaragua
October 21
Ursula K. Le Guin
, American science-fiction, fantasy author (d.
2018
)
George Stinney
, African-American criminal (d.
1944
)
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
Rachel Ames
, American actress
Amar Bose
, American engineer and entrepreneur (d.
2013
)
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
, 9th President of Pakistan
Richard E. Taylor
, Canadian physicist (d.
2018
)
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
Bert Berns
, American songwriter, record producer (d.
1967
)
Jona Senilagakali
, Acting
Prime Minister of Fiji
(d.
2011
)
Vittorio Taviani
, Italian film director and screenwriter (d.
2018
)
November 9
–
Imre Kertész
, Hungarian author (d.
2016
)
November 10
–
Ninón Sevilla
, Cuban-born Mexican actress, dancer (d.
2015
)
November 11
LaVern Baker
, American singer (d.
1997
)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
, German author, poet, translator and editor (d.
2022
)
November 12
Grace Kelly
, American actress, later Princess of Monaco (d.
1982
)
Michael Ende
, German fantasy writer (d.
1995
)
Hind Rostom
, Egyptian actress (d.
2011
)
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
Raymond Lefèvre
, French conductor, arranger, composer (d.
2008
)
Milkha Singh
, Indian athlete (d.
2021
)
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
Berry Gordy
, African-American record producer, songwriter
Thomas Remengesau Sr.
, 4th President of Palau (d.
2019
)
November 30
–
Dick Clark
, American television host and producer (d.
2012
)
December
Bob Hawke
John Cassavetes
Christopher Plummer
December 1
David Doyle
, American actor (d.
1997
)
Alfred Moisiu
, 7th President of Albania
December 6
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
, Austrian conductor (d.
2016
)
King Moody
, Americana actor and comedian (d.
2001
)
Alain Tanner
, Swiss film director
December 9
Bob Hawke
, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d.
2019
)
John Cassavetes
, American actor and director (d.
1989
)
December 12
–
Toshiko Akiyoshi
, Japanese pianist and composer
December 13
–
Christopher Plummer
, Canadian actor (d.
2021
)
December 14
Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
, Spanish cardinal (d.
2019
)
Shlomo Argov
, Israeli diplomat (d.
2003
)
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
Selim Hoss
, 3-time Prime Minister of Lebanon
Lee Hyun-jae
, South Korean politician
Milan Panić
, Serbian politician
December 23
–
Chet Baker
, American jazz musician (d.
1988
)
December 28
Efraín Goldenberg
, Peruvian politician, finance minister and foreign relations minister
Matt "Guitar" Murphy
, American blues musician (d.
2018
)
Terry Sawchuk
, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d.
1970
)
December 29
–
Susie Garrett
, African-American actress (d.
2002
)
December 31
–
Mies Bouwman
, Dutch television presenter (d.
2018
)
1930:
List
January
Robert Loggia
Tippi Hedren
Buzz Aldrin
Derek Walcott
Gene Hackman
January 1
Abdul Latif Dayfallah
, Yemeni military officer, politician (d.
2019
)
Ty Hardin
, American actor (d.
2017
)
Barkat Gourad Hamadou
,
Prime Minister of Djibouti
(d.
2018
)
Gaafar Nimeiry
, 4th
President of Sudan
(d.
2009
)
Frederick Wiseman
, American filmmaker
January 2
–
Julius La Rosa
, American singer (d.
2016
)
January 3
Robert Loggia
, American actor (d.
2015
)
Ahmed Osman
, 8th
Prime Minister of Morocco
January 4
Sorrell Booke
, American actor (d.
1994
)
Don Shula
, American professional football player and coach (d.
2020
)
January 5
–
Edward Givens
, American astronaut (d.
1967
)
January 6
Professor Tanaka
, American professional wrestler and actor (d.
2000
)
Vic Tayback
, American actor (
Alice
) (d.
1990
)
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
Derek Walcott
, West Indian writer,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2017
)
William R. Pogue
, American astronaut (d.
2014
)
Mervyn Rose
, Australian tennis player (d.
2017
)
January 24
Terence Bayler
, New Zealand actor (d.
2016
)
John Romita Sr.
, American comic book artist (d.
2023
)
January 27
–
Bobby Bland
, African-American R&B musician (d.
2013
)
January 28
Jasraj
, Indian musician (d.
2020
)
Kurt Biedenkopf
, German politician (d.
2021
)
Luis de Pablo
, Spanish composer (d.
2021
)
January 29
–
Norio Ohga
, Japanese businessman (d.
2011
)
January 30
Gene Hackman
, American actor and novelist
Egon Klepsch
, German politician (d.
2010
)
January 31
–
Jo Bonnier
, Swedish racecar driver (d.
1972
)
February
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
February 1
Shahabuddin Ahmed
, 12th
President of Bangladesh
(d.
2022
)
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
, 10th
President of Bangladesh
(d.
2019
)
February 3
–
Sándor Csoóri
, Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician (d.
2016
)
February 4
Jim Loscutoff
, American basketball player (d.
2015
)
Tony Madigan
, Australian boxer (d.
2017
)
February 8
Catherine Hardy Lavender
, American athlete (d.
2017
)
Alejandro Rey
, Argentine-American actor (d.
1987
)
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
Harry Boldt
, German equestrian
Goro Shimura
, Japanese mathematician (d.
2019
)
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
Lazar Berman
, Soviet pianist (d.
2005
)
Robert Francis
, American actor (d.
1955
)
Vladimir Kesarev
, Russian footballer (d.
2015
)
February 27
–
Joanne Woodward
, American actress
February 28
Leon Cooper
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
Lho Shin-yong
, South Korean politician, 16th
Prime Minister of South Korea
(d.
2019
)
March
Tom Wolfe
Zhores Alferov
James Irwin
Steve McQueen
Anerood Jugnauth
March 1
–
Raymond St. Jacques
, American actor (d.
1990
)
March 2
Sergei Kovalev
, Russian human rights activist and politician (d.
2021
)
Tom Wolfe
, American author, journalist (d.
2018
)
March 3
Heiner Geißler
, German politician (d.
2017
)
Ion Iliescu
, 2-time
President of Romania
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
)
Stanley Miller
, American chemist (d.
2007
)
March 9
Ornette Coleman
, African-American jazz saxophonist (d.
2015
)
Stephen Fumio Hamao
, Japanese cardinal (d.
2007
)
March 11
–
Smail Hamdani
, 11th
Prime Minister of Algeria
(d.
2017
)
March 12
–
Win Tin
, Burmese journalist, politician (d.
2014
)
March 15
–
Zhores Alferov
, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2019
)
March 17
–
James Irwin
, American astronaut (d.
1991
)
March 18
–
Adam Cardinal Maida
, American Roman Catholic prelate
March 21
James Coco
, American actor (d.
1987
)
Lynden Pindling
, 1st
Prime Minister of the Bahamas
(d.
2000
)
March 22
Stephen Sondheim
, American composer, lyricist (d.
2021
)
Pat Robertson
, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host (d.
2023
)
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
)
Sigge Parling
, Swedish footballer (d.
2016
)
March 28
Robert Ashley
, American composer (d.
2014
)
Jerome Isaac Friedman
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
March 29
Lima Duarte
, Brazilian actor
Naser Malek Motiei
, Iranian actor, director (d.
2018
)
Anerood Jugnauth
, 3-time
Prime Minister of Mauritius
, and 4th
President of Mauritius
(d.
2021
)
March 30
John Astin
, American actor
Rolf Harris
, Australian-born entertainer (d.
2023
)
April
Helmut Kohl
Dolores Huerta
Dick Sargent
James Baker
Carolyn Jones
April 1
–
Grace Lee Whitney
, American actress and singer (d.
2015
)
April 3
Lawton Chiles
, American politician (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
)
Spede Pasanen
, Finnish television personality (d.
2001
)
Dolores Huerta
, American Labor leader and activist
April 11
Nicholas F. Brady
, American politician
Anton LaVey
, American author, musician, and occultist (d.
1997
)
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
Jean Guillou
, French composer, organist, and pianist (d.
2019
)
Clive Revill
, New Zealand actor
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
Richard Donner
, American film director, producer (d.
2021
)
José Sarney
, 31st
President of Brazil
April 25
–
Paul Mazursky
, American director, writer (d.
2014
)
April 26
–
Roger Moens
, Belgian athlete and sportscaster
April 28
James Baker
, former
United States Secretary of State
Carolyn Jones
, American actress (d.
1983
)
April 29
Henri Coppens
, Belgian footballer (d.
2015
)
Claus Ogerman
, German conductor and composer (d.
2016
)
Jean Rochefort
, French actor (d.
2017
)
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
Yoram Kaniuk
, Israeli writer, painter, and journalist (d.
2013
)
Marco Pannella
, Italian politician, journalist and activist (d.
2016
)
May 3
–
Juan Gelman
, Argentine poet, writer (d.
2014
)
May 4
Katherine Jackson
,
Jackson Family
matriarch
Miljan Miljanić
, Yugoslavian-born footballer (d.
2012
)
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 10
Adam Darius
, American dancer, choreographer (d.
2017
)
George E. Smith
, American physicist and engineer
May 11
–
Edsger W. Dijkstra
, Dutch computer scientist (d.
2002
)
May 12
Jesús Franco
, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d.
2013
)
Pat McCormick
, American former diver (d.
2023
)
May 13
Vernon Shaw
, 5th President of Dominica (d.
2013
)
Mike Gravel
, American politician, former Senator of Alaska and Presidential candidate (d.
2021
)
May 15
–
Jasper Johns
, American painter
May 18
–
Don L. Lind
, American astronaut (d.
2022
)
May 19
Lorraine Hansberry
, African-American playwright (d.
1965
)
Rudolf E. Kálmán
, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer (d.
2016
)
May 21
–
Malcolm Fraser
, 22nd
Prime Minister of Australia
(d.
2015
)
May 22
Kenny Ball
, British jazz trumpeter, singer (d.
2013
)
Marisol Escobar
, French sculptor (d.
2016
)
Harvey Milk
, American politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d.
1978
)
May 25
–
Sonia Rykiel
, French fashion designer (d.
2016
)
May 27
–
John Barth
, American writer (d.
2024
)
May 28
Frank Drake
, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d.
2022
)
Edward Seaga
, Jamaican politician, 5th
Prime Minister of Jamaica
(d.
2019
)
May 31
–
Clint Eastwood
, American actor, director, and producer
June
Pete Conrad
George Fernandes
Jim Nabors
Vilmos Zsigmond
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Claude Chabrol
June 1
Pat Corley
, American actor (d.
2006
)
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
)
Anthony Harvey
, English filmmaker (d.
2017
)
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 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
Barbara
, French singer (d.
1997
)
Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway
(d.
2012
)
Jordi Pujol
, 126th
President of the Government of Catalonia
June 10
–
Ilya Glazunov
, Russian artist (d.
2017
)
June 11
Charles Rangel
, African-American politician
Ellen Schwiers
, German actress (d.
2019
)
June 12
Innes Ireland
, British racing driver (d.
1993
)
Jim Nabors
, American actor, musician and comedian (d.
2017
)
Son Sen
, Cambodian politician, criminal (d.
1997
)
June 14
Charles McCarry
, American novelist (d.
2019
)
Bora Kostić
, Serbian footballer (d.
2011
)
June 16
–
Vilmos Zsigmond
, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d.
2016
)
June 19
–
Gena Rowlands
, American actress
June 20
Magdalena Abakanowicz
, Polish sculptor (d.
2017
)
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro
, Honduran military officer (d.
1987
)
June 22
Yury Artyukhin
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
1998
)
Sa'dun Hammadi
, 33rd
Prime Minister of Iraq
(d.
2007
)
June 23
Donn F. Eisele
, American astronaut (d.
1987
)
Elza Soares
, Brazilian singer (d.
2022
)
June 24
Rashid Bakr
, 10th
Prime Minister of Sudan
(d.
1988
)
Claude Chabrol
, French film director (d.
2010
)
June 26
–
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d.
2016
)
June 27
Tommy Kono
, Japanese-American weightlifter (d.
2016
)
Ross Perot
, American billionaire, philanthropist and politician (d.
2019
)
June 28
William C. Campbell
, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
Itamar Franco
, 33rd
President of Brazil
(d.
2011
)
Horacio Gómez Bolaños
, Mexican actor (d.
1999
)
June 29
Ernst Albrecht
, German politician (d.
2014
)
Robert Evans
, American film producer and studio executive (d.
2019
)
June 30
Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad
, Syrian bishop (d.
2018
)
Thomas Sowell
, African-American economist
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
, Saudi Arabian politician (d.
2021
)
July
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Carlos Menem
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Biljana Plavšić
July 1
Moustapha Akkad
, Syrian-American film producer (d.
2005
)
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
, Bolivian politician, businessman
July 2
Ahmad Jamal
, American jazz pianist, composer (d.
2023
)
Carlos Menem
,
President of Argentina
(d.
2021
)
July 3
Kinji Fukasaku
, Japanese film director and screenwriter (d.
2003
)
Carlos Kleiber
, Austrian conductor (d.
2004
)
July 4
George Steinbrenner
, American businessman, baseball team owner (d.
2010
)
Yuriy Tyukalov
, Russian rower (d.
2018
)
July 5
–
John Wood
, English actor (d.
2011
)
July 6
George Armstrong
, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d.
2021
)
M. Balamuralikrishna
, Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (d.
2016
)
Herbert Erhardt
, German footballer (d.
2010
)
Françoise Mallet-Joris
, Belgian author (d.
2016
)
July 7
Tadao Kobayashi
, Japanese football player, manager
Theodore McCarrick
, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
Hank Mobley
, African-American jazz musician and composer (d.
1986
)
Biljana Plavšić
, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
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
Jacques Derrida
, Algerian-born French literary critic (d.
2004
)
Stephen Smale
, American mathematician
July 17
–
Sigvard Ericsson
, Swedish speed skater (d.
2019
)
July 20
Oleg Anofriyev
, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d.
2018
)
Sally Ann Howes
, English actress, singer (d.
2021
)
Heinz Kubsch
, German footballer (d.
1993
)
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
Pierre Bourdieu
, French sociologist (d.
2002
)
Lawrence Eagleburger
, 62nd
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
–
Ali al-Sistani
, Shia Ayatollah
August 5
Neil Armstrong
, American astronaut,
first human to set foot on the Moon
, commander of
Apollo 11
(d.
2012
)
Michal Kováč
, 1st
President of Slovakia
(d.
2016
)
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
Luigi De Filippo
, Italian actor (d.
2018
)
Jorma Panula
, Finnish conductor, composer
August 12
George Soros
, Hungarian-born investor
Jacques Tits
, Belgian-born French mathematician (d.
2021
)
Peter Weck
, Austrian film director, actor
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
Flor Silvestre
, Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne (d.
2020
)
Robert Culp
, American actor (d.
2010
)
Frank Gifford
, American football player (d.
2015
)
Leslie Manigat
, 34th
President of Haiti
(d.
2014
)
Tony Trabert
, American tennis player (d.
2021
)
Wolfgang Völz
, German actor (d.
2018
)
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
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
(d.
2002
)
Frank Perry
, American stage director and filmmaker (d.
1995
)
August 22
–
Gylmar dos Santos Neves
, Brazilian footballer (d.
2013
)
August 23
Luís Morais
, Brazilian footballer (d.
2020
)
Michel Rocard
, French politician (d.
2016
)
August 25
Sean Connery
, Scottish actor (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 (d.
2020
)
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
King
Baudouin I of Belgium
(d.
1993
)
Sonny Rollins
, African-American jazz saxophonist
September 8
Mario Adorf
, German actor
Jeannette Altwegg
, English figure skater (d.
2021
)
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (d.
2011
)
September 9
–
Frank Lucas
, African-American drug trafficker (d.
2019
)
September 10
–
Liliana Segre
, Italian politician and holocaust survivor
September 11
Cathryn Damon
, American actress (d.
1987
)
Renzo Montagnani
, Italian actor (d.
1997
)
September 12
–
Akira Suzuki
, Japanese chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
September 13
–
Jimmy McLane
, American swimmer (d.
2020
)
September 14
Pierre Bergé
, French businessman (d.
2017
)
Allan Bloom
, American philosopher and author (d.
1992
)
September 16
–
Anne Francis
, American actress (d.
2011
)
September 17
David Huddleston
, American actor (d.
2016
)
Edgar Mitchell
, American astronaut (d.
2016
)
Thomas P. Stafford
, American astronaut (d.
2024
)
September 19
Muhal Richard Abrams
, African-American jazz musician and composer (d.
2017
)
Antonio Margheriti
, Italian filmmaker (d.
2002
)
September 21
–
Dawn Addams
, English actress (d.
1985
)
September 23
Colin Blakely
, Northern Irish actor (d.
1987
)
Ray Charles
, African-American singer, musician and actor (d.
2004
)
September 24
–
John Young
, American astronaut (d.
2018
)
September 25
–
Shel Silverstein
, American author, poet and humorist (d.
1999
)
September 26
Philip Bosco
, American actor (d.
2018
)
Fritz Wunderlich
, German opera singer (d.
1966
)
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
October 1
Richard Harris
, Irish actor, singer (d.
2002
)
Philippe Noiret
, French actor (d.
2006
)
October 5
Pavel Popovich
, Soviet cosmonaut (d.
2009
)
Reinhard Selten
, German Nobel economist (d.
2016
)
October 6
Hafez al-Assad
,
President of Syria
(d.
2000
)
Richie Benaud
, Australian cricketer, commentator (d.
2015
)
October 8
–
Tōru Takemitsu
, Japanese composer (d.
1996
)
October 10
Yves Chauvin
, French Nobel chemist (d.
2015
)
Harold Pinter
, English playwright,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2008
)
October 11
–
Sam Johnson
, American politician (d.
2020
)
October 14
Schafik Handal
, Salvadoran politician (d.
2006
)
Mobutu Sese Seko
, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d.
1997
)
October 15
–
Christian Tumi
, Cameroonian cardinal (d.
2021
)
October 16
John Polkinghorne
, English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest (d.
2021
)
Carmen Sevilla
, Spanish singer and actress
October 17
Robert Atkins
, American nutritionist (d.
2003
)
Freimut Börngen
, German astronomer
October 18
–
Frank Carlucci
, American politician (d.
2018
)
October 19
–
Ron Joyce
, Canadian businessman (d.
2019
)
October 22
–
Todor Veselinović
, Serbian footballer and coach (d.
2017
)
October 24
The Big Bopper
(J.P. Richardson), American singer (d.
1959
)
Johan Galtung
, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician (d.
2024
)
Ahmad Shah of Pahang
, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d.
2019
)
October 28
–
Bernie Ecclestone
, English auto racing tycoon
October 29
Bertha Brouwer
, Dutch athlete (d.
2006
)
Omara Portuondo
, Cuban singer, 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
Mildred Dresselhaus
Ed White
Bob Mathias
November 3
–
Lois Smith
, American actress
November 4
Kate Reid
, English actress (d.
1993
)
Doris Roberts
, American actress (d.
2016
)
November 5
–
Hans Mommsen
, German historian (d.
2015
)
November 11
Mildred Dresselhaus
, American scientist, educator (d.
2017
)
Mabandla Dlamini
, 3rd Prime Minister of Swaziland
Hugh Everett III
, American physicist (d.
1982
)
Alevtina Kolchina
, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d.
2022
)
November 13
–
Richard A. Falk
, American professor emeritus
November 14
Pierre Bergé
, French businessman (d.
2017
)
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
, Italian mobster (d.
2017
)
November 17
–
Bob Mathias
, American athlete (d.
2006
)
November 19
–
Kurt Nielsen
, Danish tennis player (d.
2011
)
November 22
Owen Garriott
, American astronaut (d.
2019
)
Peter Hall
, English film director (d.
2017
)
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
Gary Becker
, American economist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2014
)
Vlatko Pavletić
, Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist (d.
2007
)
December 3
–
Jean-Luc Godard
, French film director (d.
2022
)
December 4
Ronnie Corbett
, English comedian (d.
2016
)
Jim Hall
, American jazz guitarist (d.
2013
)
December 6
Rolf Hoppe
, German actor (d.
2018
)
Daniel Lisulo
, 3rd
Prime Minister of Zambia
(d.
2000
)
Wojciech Zabłocki
, Polish architect and fencer (d.
2020
)
December 8
–
Maximilian Schell
, Swiss-Austrian actor (d.
2014
)
December 9
Buck Henry
, American actor, screenwriter and director (d.
2020
)
Edoardo Sanguineti
, Italian writer (d.
2010
)
December 11
Chus Lampreave
, Spanish actress (d.
2016
)
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan
, South Vietnamese general (d.
1998
)
Jean-Louis Trintignant
, French actor (d.
2022
)
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
Bob Guccione
, American photographer and publisher (d.
2010
)
Armin Mueller-Stahl
, German actor
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:
List
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
William Deane
, Australian politician
Guido Messina
, Italian racing cyclist (d.
2020
)
Cleopa Msuya
, 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania
January 5
Alvin Ailey
, American choreographer (d.
1989
)
Alfred Brendel
, Austrian pianist
Walt Davis
, American athlete (d.
2020
)
Robert Duvall
, American actor, filmmaker
Juan Goytisolo
, Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist (d.
2017
)
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
Ian Hendry
, English actor (d.
1984
)
Charles Nelson Reilly
, American actor, comedian (d.
2007
)
Elias M. Stein
, American mathematician (d.
2018
)
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
Sawako Ariyoshi
, Japanese writer, novelist (d.
1984
)
David Lee
, American physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics
January 22
–
Sam Cooke
, African-American singer (d.
1964
)
January 24
–
Lars Hörmander
, Swedish mathematician (d.
2012
)
January 25
Stig Anderson
, Swedish music entrepreneur (d.
1997
)
Paavo Haavikko
, Finnish poet, playwright, essayist and publisher (d.
2008
)
Dean Jones
, American actor (d.
2015
)
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
February 1
Iajuddin Ahmed
, 13th
President of Bangladesh
(d.
2012
)
Boris Yeltsin
, 1st
President of Russia
(d.
2007
)
February 2
Dries van Agt
, Dutch politician, 46th
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(d.
2024
)
Walter Burkert
, German academic and writer (d.
2015
)
February 4
–
Isabel Martínez de Perón
, 41st
President of Argentina
February 6
Rip Torn
, American actor and comedian (d.
2019
)
Mamie Van Doren
, American actress, author
Ricardo Vidal
, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal (d.
2017
)
February 8
James Dean
, American actor (d.
1955
)
Shadia
, Egyptian actress, singer (d.
2017
)
February 9
Thomas Bernhard
, Austrian author (d.
1989
)
Josef Masopust
, Czech footballer and coach (d.
2015
)
Robert Morris
, American sculptor (d.
2018
)
February 12
–
Agustín García-Gasco Vicente
, Spanish cardinal (d.
2011
)
February 15
–
Claire Bloom
, English actress
February 16
Bobby Collins
, Scottish footballer (d.
2014
)
Ken Takakura
, Japanese actor (d.
2014
)
February 17
–
Jiřina Jirásková
, Czech actress (d.
2013
)
February 18
Johnny Hart
, American cartoonist (d.
2007
)
Toni Morrison
, African-American writer, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature
(d.
2019
)
February 23
–
Linda Cristal
, Argentine actress (d.
2020
)
February 24
–
Dominic Chianese
, American actor
February 25
–
Christopher George
, American actor (d.
1983
)
February 28
Gavin MacLeod
, American actor (d.
2021
)
Dean Smith
, American basketball player and coach (d.
2015
)
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
Chun Doo-hwan
, 5th
President of South Korea
(d.
2021
)
Hal Needham
, American stuntman, film director, actor and writer (d.
2013
)
John Smith
, American actor (d.
1995
)
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
Janosch
, German writer
Rupert Murdoch
, Australian-born publisher
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
Vlastimil Bubník
, Czech ice hockey player and footballer (d.
2015
)
John Mollo
, British costume designer and book author (d.
2017
)
March 20
Hal Linden
, American actor, singer
Karen Steele
, American actress (d.
1988
)
March 22
Burton Richter
, American physicist (d.
2018
)
William Shatner
, Canadian actor, science fiction novelist
March 23
Yevgeny Grishin
, Russian speedskater (d.
2005
)
Viktor Korchnoi
, Russian-born Swiss chess grandmaster (d.
2016
)
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
Ivan Dixon
, African-American actor, director and producer (d.
2008
)
Suchitra Sen
(Roma Dasgupta),
Bengali
actress (d.
2014
)
April 7
–
Daniel Ellsberg
, American economist, and activist (d.
2023
)
April 8
–
John Gavin
, American actor and diplomat (d.
2018
)
April 11
Luis Cabral
, 1st
President of Guinea-Bissau
(d.
2009
)
Mustafa Dağıstanlı
, Turkish free-style wrestler
Johnny Sheffield
, American child actor (d.
2010
)
Koichi Sugiyama
, Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator (d.
2021
)
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
Frank Auerbach
, German-born painter
Lonnie Donegan
, Scottish musician (d.
2002
)
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
Teresa Brewer
, American pop, jazz singer (d.
2007
)
Gene Wolfe
, American science fiction and fantasy writer (d.
2019
)
May 8
–
Bob Clotworthy
, American diver (d.
2018
)
May 9
–
Vance D. Brand
, American astronaut
May 10
Olja Ivanjicki
, Serbian painter, sculptor, and poet (d.
2009
)
Ichirō Nagai
, Japanese actor (d.
2014
)
Ettore Scola
, Italian screenwriter and film director (d.
2016
)
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
Vujadin Boškov
, Serbian footballer and coach (d.
2014
)
Natwar Singh
, Indian politician
Alena Vrzáňová
, Czech figure skater (d.
2015
)
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
Carroll Baker
, American actress
Gordon Willis
, American cinematographer and film director (d.
2014
)
May 31
John Schrieffer
, American physicist and
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2019
)
Shirley Verrett
, American mezzo-soprano (d.
2010
)
June
Raúl Castro
Marla Gibbs
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Olympia Dukakis
June 2
–
Viktor Tsaryov
, Russian footballer (d.
2017
)
June 3
Françoise Arnoul
, French actress (d.
2021
)
Raúl Castro
,
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Emir
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain
(d.
1999
)
Lindy Remigino
, American Olympic athlete (d.
2018
)
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
Marla Gibbs
, African-American actress, comedian and singer
Junior Walker
, American saxophonist, singer (d.
1995
)
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
Olympia Dukakis
, American actress (d.
2021
)
Mary L. Good
, American chemist (d.
2019
)
Arne Nordheim
, Norwegian composer (d.
2010
)
James Tolkan
, American actor
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
Billy Casper
, American golfer (d.
2015
)
Gaston Flosse
, French politician
June 25
–
V. P. Singh
,
Prime Minister of India
(d.
2008
)
June 26
–
Colin Wilson
, English writer, philosopher and novelist (d.
2013
)
June 27
Magali Noël
, French actress and singer (d.
2015
)
Martinus J. G. Veltman
, Dutch physicist (d.
2021
)
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
Leslie Caron
, French actress
Stanislav Grof
, Czech psychiatrist
Seyni Kountché
, former
President of Niger
(d.
1987
)
July 4
Stephen Boyd
, Irish actor (d.
1977
)
Sébastien Japrisot
, French author, screenwriter and film director (d.
2003
)
July 5
–
James Burke
, Irish-American mobster (d.
1996
)
July 6
Antonella Lualdi
, Italian actress, singer
Della Reese
, African-American actress, singer and evangelist (d.
2017
)
July 7
–
David Eddings
, American author (d.
2009
)
July 8
–
Thorvald Stoltenberg
, Norwegian politician (d.
2018
)
July 10
Nick Adams
, American actor (d.
1968
)
Morris Chang
, Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in
1987
Jerry Herman
, American composer, lyricist (d.
2019
)
Alice Munro
, Canadian writer, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature
(d.
2024
)
July 11
Tab Hunter
, American actor, singer (d.
2018
)
Tullio Regge
, Italian physicist and academic (d.
2014
)
July 13
–
Frank Ramsey
, American professional basketball player, coach (d.
2018
)
July 14
Luis Pércovich Roca
, 118th Prime Minister of Peru (d.
2017
)
Robert Stephens
, English actor (d.
1995
)
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
Hal Connolly
, American athlete (d.
2010
)
Dino da Costa
, Brazilian-born Italian footballer (d.
2020
)
August 3
–
Vladimir Trusenyov
, Russian discus thrower (d.
2001
)
August 6
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
, Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d.
2014
)
Umberto Lenzi
, Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist (d.
2017
)
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
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
, Saudi prince and politician (d.
2018
)
Richard F. Heck
, American chemist (d.
2015
)
Janice Rule
, American actress (d.
2003
)
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
Marianne Koch
, German actress
Willie Shoemaker
, American jockey (d.
2003
)
August 20
–
Don King
, American boxing promoter
August 23
Barbara Eden
, American actress, singer (
I Dream of Jeannie
)
Hamilton O. Smith
, American microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 25
–
Regis Philbin
, American actor, singer and television personality (d.
2020
)
August 27
Sri Chinmoy
, Indian philosopher (d.
2007
)
Sven Tumba
, Swedish ice hockey player (d.
2011
)
August 28
–
Shunichiro Okano
, Japanese footballer and manager (d.
2017
)
August 30
–
Jack Swigert
, American astronaut (d.
1982
)
August 31
Jean Béliveau
, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
2014
)
Noble Willingham
, American actor (d.
2004
)
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
Ian Holm
, English actor (d.
2020
)
George Jones
, American country music singer, songwriter (d.
2013
)
Bill McKinney
, American actor (d.
2011
)
September 13
Barbara Bain
, American actress (
Mission: Impossible
)
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson
, Austrian politician and athlete
September 16
–
E. C. George Sudarshan
, Indian theoretical physicist (d.
2018
)
September 17
Anne Bancroft
, American actress (d.
2005
)
Jean-Claude Carrière
, French novelist and screenwriter (d.
2021
)
Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco
(d.
2011
)
September 18
–
Julio Grondona
, Argentine football executive (d.
2014
)
September 19
Brook Benton
, American singer-songwriter (d.
1988
)
Ray Danton
, American actor (d.
1992
)
September 20
–
Haya Harareet
, Israeli actress and screenwriter (d.
2021
)
September 21
Larry Hagman
, American actor (d.
2012
)
Syukuro Manabe
, Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist
September 22
–
Fay Weldon
, British author (d.
2023
)
September 24
Tom Adams
, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d.
1985
)
Anthony Newley
, English actor (d.
1999
)
September 27
–
Freddy Quinn
, Austrian singer, actor
September 29
James Cronin
, American Nobel physicist (d.
2016
)
Anita Ekberg
, Swedish actress (d.
2015
)
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
Cotton Fitzsimmons
, American basketball coach (d.
2004
)
Desmond Tutu
, South African Anglican archbishop, activist and recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
(d.
2021
)
October 13
Dritëro Agolli
, Albanian poet, writer and politician (d.
2017
)
Raymond Kopa
, French footballer (d.
2017
)
Eddie Mathews
, American baseball player (d.
2001
)
October 15
Freddy Cole
, American jazz singer and pianist (d.
2020
)
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
, Indian scientist and politician, 11th
President of India
(d.
2015
)
Ahmed Laraki
, 6th
Prime Minister of Morocco
(d.
2020
)
October 16
–
Charles Colson
, American politician,
Watergate
conspirator, later evangelist (d.
2012
)
October 17
José Alencar
, Brazilian politician, 23rd
Vice President of Brazil
(d.
2011
)
Nikolay Kamenskiy
, Russian ski jumper (d.
2017
)
October 19
John le Carré
, English novelist (d.
2020
)
Manolo Escobar
, Spanish singer, actor (d.
2013
)
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
Jim Bunning
, American baseball player, and politician (d.
2017
)
Diana Dors
, English actress (d.
1984
)
October 25
Annie Girardot
, French actress (d.
2011
)
Klaus Hasselmann
, German oceanographer
Jimmy McIlroy
, Irish footballer and manager (d.
2018
)
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
Nawal El Saadawi
, Egyptian feminist campaigner (d.
2021
)
Sergio Obeso Rivera
, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d.
2019
)
Dan Rather
, American television news reporter (
CBS Evening News
)
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
Michael Fu Tieshan
, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d.
2007
)
Monica Vitti
, Italian actress (d.
2022
)
November 4
–
Bernard Francis Law
, American cardinal (d.
2017
)
November 5
–
Ike Turner
, African-American singer, songwriter (d.
2007
)
November 6
Peter Collins
, British racing driver (d.
1958
)
Mike Nichols
, German-American film director and producer (d.
2014
)
November 8
Darla Hood
, American child actress, voice actress and singer (
Our Gang
) (d.
1979
)
Morley Safer
, Canadian journalist (
60 Minutes
) (d.
2016
)
November 12
–
Norman Mineta
, American politician (d.
2022
)
November 15
John Kerr
, American actor (d.
2013
)
Mwai Kibaki
, 3rd
President of Kenya
(d.
2022
)
Pascal Lissouba
,
President of the Republic of Congo
(d.
2020
)
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
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
, Argentine activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
Adrianus Johannes Simonis
, Dutch cardinal (d.
2020
)
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
December 1
Rajko Kuzmanović
, 7th
President of Republika Srpska
George Maxwell Richards
, 4th
President of Trinidad and Tobago
(d.
2018
)
December 2
Wynton Kelly
, Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d.
1971
)
Edwin Meese
, American attorney, law professor, and author
December 7
–
Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk
, South Korean cardinal (d.
2021
)
December 11
Ronald Dworkin
, American philosopher and lawyer (d.
2013
)
Rita Moreno
, Puerto-Rican actress
Rajneesh
, Indian spiritual leader (d.
1990
)
December 15
–
Klaus Rifbjerg
, Danish author (d.
2015
)
December 17
–
Dave Madden
, Canadian-American actor (d.
2014
)
December 18
Eva Bosáková
, Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast (d.
1991
)
Allen Klein
, American businessman (d.
2009
)
Gunnel Lindblom
, Swedish actress (d.
2021
)
December 21
Redha Malek
, 8th
Prime Minister of Algeria
(d.
2017
)
Georgi Naydenov
, Bulgarian footballer and manager (d.
1970
)
December 22
–
Carlos Graça
, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d.
2013
)
December 23
–
Ronnie Schell
, American actor
December 24
Ray Bryant
, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d.
2011
)
Mauricio Kagel
, Argentine composer (d.
2008
)
December 26
–
Roger Piantoni
, French footballer (d.
2018
)
December 27
John Charles
, Welsh footballer (d.
2004
)
Scotty Moore
, American guitarist (d.
2016
)
Lê Khả Phiêu
, 10th
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
(d.
2020
)
December 28
Guy Debord
, French theorist, philosopher, and filmmaker (d.
1994
)
Martin Milner
, American actor (d.
2015
)
December 30
Charles Bassett
, American electrical engineer, astronaut (d.
1966
)
Skeeter Davis
, American singer (d.
2004
)
December 31
–
Bob Shaw
, Irish writer (d.
1996
)
1932:
List
January
Umberto Eco
Piper Laurie
January 3
Dabney Coleman
, American actor (d.
2024
)
Eeles Landström
, Finnish athlete (d.
2022
)
January 4
–
Carlos Saura
, Spanish film director (d.
2023
)
January 5
Johnny Adams
, American singer (d.
1998
)
Umberto Eco
, Italian scholar and novelist (d.
2016
)
Bill Foulkes
, English footballer (d.
2013
)
Raisa Gorbacheva
, Wife of the President of the Soviet Union (d.
1999
)
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
Peggy Ann Garner
, American actress (d.
1984
)
Stuart Hall
, Jamaican-British sociologist (d.
2014
)
February 5
–
Cesare Maldini
, Italian footballer and manager (d.
2016
)
February 6
François Truffaut
, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (d.
1984
)
Camilo Cienfuegos
, Cuban revolutionary leader (d.
1959
)
February 7
Gay Talese
, American author
Alfred Worden
, American astronaut (d.
2020
)
February 8
Horst Eckel
, German footballer (d.
2021
)
John Williams
, American composer and conductor
February 9
–
Gerhard Richter
, German painter
February 10
–
Robert Taylor
, American computer scientist (d.
2017
)
February 12
Princess Astrid of Norway
Lincoln Kilpatrick
, African-American actor (d.
2004
)
February 13
–
Susan Oliver
, American actress (d.
1990
)
February 14
Harriet Andersson
, Swedish actress
Alexander Kluge
, German author and film director
February 16
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
, 3rd
President of Sierra Leone
(d.
2014
)
Aharon Appelfeld
, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer (d.
2018
)
February 18
–
Miloš Forman
, Czech-American film director (d.
2018
)
February 19
Alberto Dines
, Brazilian journalist and writer (d.
2018
)
Joseph P. Kerwin
, American physician and astronaut
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
, French opera director (d.
1988
)
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
John Vernon
, Canadian actor (d.
2005
)
Michel Legrand
, French composer (d.
2019
)
Zell Miller
, American politician (d.
2018
)
February 25
Hans Apel
, German politician (d.
2011
)
Tony Brooks
, English racing driver
Faron Young
, American country singer (d.
1996
)
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
Ryszard Kapuściński
, Polish journalist (d.
2007
)
Miriam Makeba
, South African singer and civil rights activist (d.
2008
)
March 5
–
Earl Woods
, African-American army officer (d.
2006
)
March 6
Marc Bazin
, 4th
Prime Minister of Haiti
(d.
2010
)
Bronisław Geremek
, Polish social historian and politician (d.
2008
)
March 7
Lola Beltrán
, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (d.
1996
)
Momoko Kōchi
, Japanese actress (d.
1998
)
March 10
Anatoly Roshchin
, Russian heavyweight wrestler (d.
2016
)
Ieng Thirith
, Cambodian politician (d.
2015
)
March 11
–
Leroy Jenkins
, African-American jazz musician and composer (d.
2007
)
March 12
–
Andrew Young
, African-American politician, diplomat and activist
March 14
Mark Murphy
, American jazz singer (d.
2015
)
Naina Yeltsina
,
First Lady of Russia
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
April 1
–
Debbie Reynolds
, American actress, dancer, and singer (d.
2016
)
April 2
–
Edward Egan
, American cardinal (d.
2015
)
April 4
Richard Lugar
, American politician (d.
2019
)
Anthony Perkins
, American actor (d.
1992
)
Andrei Tarkovsky
, Russian film director, screenwriter (d.
1986
)
April 8
József Antall
, Hungarian historian, librarian, political figure and teacher, 53rd
Prime Minister of Hungary
(d.
1993
)
Sultan
Iskandar of Johor
, 8th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong
of Malaysia (d.
2010
)
April 9
Mati Klarwein
, German painter (d.
2002
)
Carl Perkins
, American musician (d.
1998
)
April 10
Kishori Amonkar
, Indian vocalist (d.
2017
)
Mae Faggs
, American athlete (d.
2000
)
Delphine Seyrig
, Lebanese-born French actress (d.
1990
)
Omar Sharif
, Egyptian actor (d.
2015
)
April 11
–
Joel Grey
, American actor, singer and dancer
April 12
Jean-Pierre Marielle
, French actor (d.
2019
)
Lakshman Kadirgamar
, Sri Lankan politician (d.
2005
)
Tiny Tim
, American musician (d.
1996
)
April 14
Atef Ebeid
, 47th
Prime Minister of Egypt
(d.
2014
)
Loretta Lynn
, American country singer (d.
2022
)
April 16
Qahhor Mahkamov
, 1st
President of Tajikistan
(d.
2016
)
Imre Polyák
, Hungarian featherweight (d.
2010
)
April 19
Fernando Botero
, Colombian artist and sculptor (d.
2023
)
Andrea Mead Lawrence
, American alpine ski racer (d.
2009
)
April 21
Elaine May
, American film director, actress
Angela Mortimer
, British tennis player
April 22
Anthony Soter Fernandez
, Malaysian cardinal (d.
2020
)
Isao Tomita
, Japanese composer (d.
2016
)
April 24
–
Vladimir Yengibaryan
, Armenian amateur light-welterweight boxer (d.
2013
)
April 25
Nikolai Kardashev
, Russian astrophysicist (d.
2019
)
Lia Manoliu
, Romanian discus thrower (d.
1998
)
William Roache
, English actor
April 26
Francis Lai
, French composer (d.
2018
)
Michael Smith
, British-born Canadian biochemist (d.
2000
)
April 27
Anouk Aimée
, French actress
Pik Botha
, South African politician (d.
2018
)
Casey Kasem
, American disc jockey and voice actor (d.
2014
)
Gian-Carlo Rota
, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d.
1999
)
April 29
–
King Hu
, Chinese film director (d.
1997
)
May
Phyllida Law
Arnold Wesker
K. C. Jones
May 1
–
Donald Kagan
, Lithuanian-born American historian (d.
2021
)
May 3
Maria Itkina
, Soviet athlete (d.
2020
)
Robert Osborne
, American film historian and television host (d.
2017
)
May 6
–
Antal Bolvári
, Hungarian water polo player (d.
2019
)
May 7
–
Pete Domenici
, American politician (d.
2017
)
May 8
Phyllida Law
, Scottish actress
Sonny Liston
, American boxer (d.
1970
)
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
Turgay Şeren
, Turkish footballer (d.
2016
)
Chavalit Yongchaiyudh
, 22nd
Prime Minister of Thailand
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
Paul R. Ehrlich
, American biologist
Richie Guerin
, American basketball player and coach
May 30
Solomon W. Golomb
, American mathematician (d.
2016
)
Pauline Oliveros
, American composer (d.
2016
)
June
Dudley R. Herschbach
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
Amrish Puri
Pat Morita
June 4
John Drew Barrymore
, American actor (d.
2004
)
Oliver Nelson
, African-American jazz saxophonist (d.
1975
)
Javier Echevarría Rodríguez
, Spanish bishop (d.
2016
)
June 5
–
Christy Brown
, Irish writer and painter (d.
1981
)
June 6
David Scott
, American astronaut
Billie Whitelaw
, English actress (d.
2014
)
June 10
Marc Fumaroli
, French historian and essayist (d.
2020
)
Branko Lustig
, Croatian film producer (d.
2019
)
June 11
–
Athol Fugard
, South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director
June 12
Mimi Coertse
, South African soprano
Mamo Wolde
, Ethiopian Olympic athlete (d.
2002
)
June 13
Bob McGrath
, American actor (d.
2022
)
Oreco
, Brazilian footballer (d.
1985
)
June 14
–
Javier Echevarría Rodríguez
, Spanish bishop (d.
2016
)
June 15
Mario Cuomo
, American politician (d.
2015
)
Asnoldo Devonish
, Venezuelan athlete (d.
1997
)
June 17
Derek Ibbotson
, English athlete (d.
2017
)
Peter Lupus
, American actor and bodybuilder
June 18
Dudley R. Herschbach
, American chemist and
Nobel
laureate
Geoffrey Hill
, English poet (d.
2016
)
June 19
Pier Angeli
, Italian actress (d.
1971
)
Marisa Pavan
, Italian actress (d.
2023
)
June 20
–
Robert Rozhdestvensky
, Soviet Poet (d.
1994
)
June 21
–
Lalo Schifrin
, Argentine pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor
June 22
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari
,
Princess of Iran
; wife of
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(d.
2001
)
Amrish Puri
, Indian actor (d.
2005
)
Prunella Scales
, English actress
June 24
–
Margit Korondi
, Hungarian gymnast
June 25
Peter Blake
, English artist
Ichiro Ogimura
, Japanese table tennis player, and coach (d.
1994
)
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
Otis Davis
, American athlete
Monte Hellman
, American film director, producer, writer and editor (d.
2021
)
July 13
Per Nørgård
, Danish composer
Hubert Reeves
, Canadian astrophysicist (d.
2023
)
Antonio Roma
, Argentine footballer (d.
2013
)
July 14
Princess Margarita of Baden
(d.
2013
)
Helga Liné
, German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat
July 16
Bill Byrge
, American actor and comedian
Oleg Protopopov
, Russian pair skater (d.
2023
)
Dick Thornburgh
, American lawyer, author and politician (d.
2020
)
July 17
Johnny Kerr
, American basketball player (d.
2009
)
Wojciech Kilar
, Polish composer (d.
2013
)
Quino
, Argentine cartoonist (d.
2020
)
July 18
–
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
, Russian poet (d.
2017
)
July 20
Dick Giordano
, American comic book artist and editor (d.
2010
)
Nam June Paik
, Korean-born American artist (d.
2006
)
Otto Schily
, German politician
July 22
Oscar de la Renta
, Dominican-American fashion designer (d.
2014
)
Tom Robbins
, American novelist
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
Ted Cassidy
, American actor (d.
1979
)
John Searle
, American philosopher
August
Peter O'Toole
V. S. Naipaul
Luc Montagnier
Banharn Silpa-archa
August 1
Meir Kahane
, American-born Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist (d.
1990
)
Meena Kumari
, Indian actress (d.
1972
)
August 2
Lamar Hunt
, American sportsman (d.
2006
)
Peter O'Toole
, British-Irish actor (d.
2013
)
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
Mel Tillis
, American country singer (d.
2017
)
Zito
, Brazilian footballer (d.
2015
)
August 9
–
Anand Panyarachun
, 18th
Prime Minister of Thailand
August 11
Fernando Arrabal
, Spanish writer
Keiko Kishi
, Japanese actress and writer
August 12
–
Sirikit
, Queen consort of Thailand
August 15
Abby Dalton
, American actress (d.
2020
)
Robert L. Forward
, American physicist (d.
2002
)
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
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
, British cardinal (d.
2017
)
W. Morgan Sheppard
, English actor (d.
2019
)
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
Sunny von Bülow
, American socialite (d.
2008
)
Derog Gioura
, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru (d.
2008
)
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
Hisashi Owada
, Japanese jurist, diplomat and law professor
Nikolay Rukavishnikov
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2002
)
September 21
–
Mickey Kuhn
, American child actor (d.
2022
)
September 22
Algirdas Brazauskas
, 10th
President of Lithuania
(d.
2010
)
Ingemar Johansson
, Swedish boxer (d.
2009
)
September 25
Glenn Gould
, Canadian pianist (d.
1982
)
Adolfo Suárez
, 138th
Prime Minister of Spain
(d.
2014
)
September 26
Donna Douglas
, American actress and singer (d.
2015
)
Richard Herd
, American actor (d.
2020
)
Joyce Jameson
, American actress (d.
1987
)
Manmohan Singh
, 13th
Prime Minister of India
Vladimir Voinovich
, Russian writer (d.
2018
)
Clifton Williams
, American astronaut (d.
1967
)
September 27
Roger C. Carmel
, American actor (d.
1986
)
Yash Chopra
, Indian film director and producer (d.
2012
)
Oliver E. Williamson
, American economist (d.
2020
)
September 28
–
Víctor Jara
, Chilean singer-songwriter (d.
1973
)
September 29
Mehmood
, Indian actor (d.
2004
)
Rainer Weiss
, German-born American gravitational physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
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
Luis María Argaña
, Paraguayan politician (d.
1999
)
Ángel Roberto Seifart
, Paraguayan politician (d.
2018
)
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
Jake Garn
, American astronaut and politician
Dick Gregory
, African-American comedian and activist (d.
2017
)
Yuichiro Miura
, Japanese alpinist
October 13
Dušan Makavejev
, Serbian film director and screenwriter (d.
2019
)
Liliane Montevecchi
, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d.
2018
)
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
William Christopher
, American actor and comedian (
M*A*S*H
) (d.
2016
)
Michael McClure
, American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist (d.
2020
)
October 21
–
Pál Csernai
, Hungarian footballer and manager (d.
2013
)
October 23
–
Vasily Belov
, Soviet-Russian writer, poet and dramatist (d.
2012
)
October 24
Stephen Covey
, American educator, author, and businessman (d.
2012
)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
, French physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2007
)
Robert Mundell
, Canadian economist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2021
)
October 25
–
Vitold Fokin
, 1st
Prime Minister of Ukraine
October 26
–
Manfred Max-Neef
, Chilean economist (d.
2019
)
October 27
Harry Gregg
, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d.
2020
)
Sylvia Plath
, American poet and author (d.
1963
)
Jean-Pierre Cassel
, French actor (d.
2007
)
October 28
Spyros Kyprianou
, 2nd
President of Cyprus
(d.
2002
)
Suzy Parker
, American fashion model and actress (d.
2003
)
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
Henri Namphy
, 35th
President of Haiti
(d.
2018
)
Melvin Schwartz
, American physicist (d.
2006
)
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
Stéphane Audran
, French actress (d.
2018
)
Ben Bova
, American writer, author (d.
2020
)
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici
, Maltese politician, 5th
President of Malta
November 10
Paul Bley
, Canadian pianist (d.
2016
)
Roy Scheider
, American actor (d.
2008
)
November 13
Olga Fikotová
, Czechoslovak-American discus thrower
Richard Mulligan
, American actor (d.
2000
)
November 15
Petula Clark
, British singer, actress and composer
Clyde McPhatter
, American singer (d.
1972
)
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
Fazu Aliyeva
, Soviet-born Russian poet, novelist and journalist (d.
2016
)
Sheldon Lee Glashow
, American physicist
Little Richard
, African-American singer and actor (d.
2020
)
December 7
Ellen Burstyn
, American actress
Pentti Linkola
, Finnish deep ecologist and writer (d.
2020
)
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
Abbe Lane
, American actress and singer
Charlie Rich
, American country music singer, songwriter, and musician (d.
1995
)
Étienne Tshisekedi
, 3-time
Prime Minister of Zaire
(d.
2017
)
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
Nichelle Nichols
, African-American actress (d.
2022
)
Manuel Puig
, Argentinian writer (d.
1990
)
December 29
–
Inga Swenson
, American actress and singer (d.
2023
)
December 30
–
Paolo Villaggio
, Italian writer and actor (d.
2017
)
1933:
List
January
Dalida
Corazon Aquino
January 1
Ford Konno
, Japanese-American swimmer
Joe Orton
, British playwright (d.
1967
)
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
Liliana Cavani
, Italian film director and screenwriter
Kamal Ganzouri
, 46th
Prime Minister of Egypt
(d.
2021
)
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
Dalida
, French singer (d.
1987
)
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
, French U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (d.
2003
)
January 18
David Bellamy
, English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist (d.
2019
)
John Boorman
, English film director
Ray Dolby
, American engineer and inventor (d.
2013
)
January 21
–
Habib Thiam
, Senegal politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Senegal
(d.
2017
)
January 23
Bill Hayden
, Australian politician, 21st
Governor-General of Australia
(d.
2023
)
Chita Rivera
, American actress, dancer (d.
2024
)
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
Tony Jay
, English-American actor and voice artist (d.
2006
)
Than Shwe
, 8th
Prime Minister of Burma
February 3
–
Paul Sarbanes
, American politician (d.
2020
)
February 5
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann
, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest (d.
2017
)
Jörn Donner
, Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, and politician (d.
2020
)
February 8
Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria
, Austro-Hungarian royal (d.
2017
)
Elly Ameling
, Dutch soprano
February 9
–
John Mitchell
, English author (d.
2009
)
February 12
–
Costa-Gavras
, Greek-born director, writer
February 13
Paul Biya
, 2nd
President of Cameroon
Kim Novak
, American actress
Emanuel Ungaro
, French fashion designer (d.
2019
)
February 14
–
Madhubala
, Indian actress (d.
1969
)
February 17
–
Craig L. Thomas
, American politician (d.
2007
)
February 18
Yoko Ono
, Japanese-born singer, artist and widow of
John Lennon
Bobby Robson
, English soccer player, manager (d.
2009
)
Mary Ure
, Scottish actress (d.
1975
)
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
Godfrey Cambridge
, American actor and comedian (d.
1976
)
James Goldsmith
, French, financier, tycoon, and politician (d.
1997
)
Lubomyr Husar
, Ukrainian archbishop and cardinal (d.
2017
)
February 28
–
Charles Vinci
, American weightlifter (d.
2018
)
March
Michael Caine
Quincy Jones
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Philip Roth
March 3
Alfredo Landa
, Spanish actor (d.
2013
)
Tomas Milian
, Cuban-American-Italian actor (d.
2017
)
Lee Radziwiłł
, American socialite, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (d.
2019
)
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
Barbara Feldon
, American actress, model (
Get Smart
)
Jesús Gil
, Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman, and football team owner (d.
2004
)
March 13
–
Mike Stoller
, American songwriter
March 14
Michael Caine
, English actor and author
René Felber
, Swiss Federal Councillor (d.
2020
)
Quincy Jones
, African-American music producer, composer
March 15
Philippe de Broca
, French film director (d.
2004
)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
(d.
2020
)
March 17
–
Penelope Lively
, English writer
March 18
–
Unita Blackwell
, African-American civil rights activist (d.
2019
)
March 19
Philip Roth
, American author (d.
2018
)
Michel Sabbah
, Israeli patriarch
Renée Taylor
, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
Richard Williams
, Canadian-British animator (d.
2019
)
March 21
–
Michael Heseltine
, British politician and businessman
March 22
Abolhassan Banisadr
, 1st
President of Iran
(d.
2021
)
Buddy MacKay
, American politician and diplomat
Michel Hidalgo
, French footballer and manager (d.
2020
)
March 23
–
Philip Zimbardo
, American psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford University
March 24
–
William Smith
, American actor (d.
2021
)
March 28
Tete Montoliu
, Catalonian jazz pianist (d.
1997
)
Frank Murkowski
, American politician
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
Dan Flavin
, American artist (d.
1996
)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
, French physicist
April 4
Frits Bolkestein
, Dutch politician
Brian Hewson
, English athlete
April 5
–
Frank Gorshin
, American actor (
Batman
) (d.
2005
)
April 7
Wayne Rogers
, American actor (
M*A*S*H
) (d.
2015
)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
,
Persian-American
Islamic scholar
April 9
Jean-Paul Belmondo
, French actor (d.
2021
)
Gian Maria Volonté
, Italian actor (d.
1994
)
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
Yuri Oganessian
, Russian nuclear physicist
Boris Strugatsky
, Soviet-Russian science fiction author (d.
2012
)
April 15
Roy Clark
, American country musician (d.
2018
)
Elizabeth Montgomery
, American actress (d.
1995
)
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
Carol Burnett
, American actress, singer and comedian
Arno Allan Penzias
, German-born physicist and
Nobel
laureate (d.
2024
)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
, Puerto Rican activist (d.
2005
)
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
James Brown
, African-American soul musician (d.
2006
)
Alex Cord
, American actor (d.
2021
)
Steven Weinberg
, American theoretical physicist (d.
2021
)
May 5
–
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
, 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d.
2016
)
May 7
Johnny Unitas
, American football player (d.
2002
)
Nexhmije Pagarusha
, Albanian singer, actress (d.
2020
)
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
László Kovács
, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d.
2007
)
Siân Phillips
, Welsh actress
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
Charles Wilson
, American politician (d.
2010
)
Haruo Remeliik
, 1st President of Palau (d.
1985
)
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
James Meredith
, African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser
Álvaro Siza
, Portuguese architect
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
Murray Halberg
, New Zealand runner
David McCullough
, American historian, author (d.
2022
)
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
Franz, Duke of Bavaria
, German royal
Dumaagiin Sodnom
, 13th Prime Minister of Mongolia
July 15
Julian Bream
, English guitarist, lutenist (d.
2020
)
Guido Crepax
, Italian comics artist (d.
2003
)
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
, Indian writer
July 16
–
Brad Harris
, American actor and stunt performer (d.
2017
)
July 17
–
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici
, 9th
Prime Minister of Malta
July 18
Syd Mead
, American industrial and conceptual designer (d.
2019
)
Jean Yanne
, French actor, and film director (d.
2003
)
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
Lou Albano
, Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor (d.
2009
)
Robert Fuller
, American actor and rancher
July 31
–
Cees Nooteboom
, Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist
August
Dom DeLuise
Julie Newmar
Stuart Roosa
Roman Polanski
Tom Skerritt
August 1
Dom DeLuise
, American actor, comedian (d.
2009
)
Meena Kumari
, Indian actress, singer and poet (d.
1972
)
Antonio Negri
, Italian philosopher (d.
2023
)
August 2
–
Tom Bell
, English actor (d.
2006
)
August 4
–
Sheldon Adelson
, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (d.
2021
)
August 7
Elinor Ostrom
, American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2012
)
Jerry Pournelle
, American science fiction writer (d.
2017
)
August 9
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
, Japanese actress
Albert Quixall
, English footballer (d.
2020
)
August 10
Doyle Brunson
, American poker player (d.
2023
)
Lynn Cohen
, American actress (d.
2020
)
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
Bobby Helms
, American country music singer (d.
1997
)
Stanley Milgram
, American psychologist (d.
1984
)
Lori Nelson
, American actress and model (d.
2020
)
August 16
Julie Newmar
, American actress (
Batman
)
Stuart Roosa
, American astronaut (d.
1994
)
August 17
Glenn Corbett
, American actor (d.
1993
)
Gene Kranz
, American
NASA
Flight Director
August 18
Just Fontaine
, French footballer and manager (d.
2023
)
Roman Polanski
, Polish film director
August 20
Luis Bacalov
, Argentine-born Italian composer (d.
2017
)
George J. Mitchell
, American lawyer, businessman, author, and politician
August 21
–
Janet Baker
, English mezzo-soprano
August 22
–
Sylva Koscina
, Italian-Croatian actress (d.
1994
)
August 23
Robert Curl
, American chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2022
)
Pete Wilson
, American politician
August 25
Wayne Shorter
, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d.
2023
)
Tom Skerritt
, American actor
August 26
–
Robert Chartoff
, American film producer (d.
2015
)
August 27
–
Kerstin Ekman
, Swedish novelist
August 29
Arnold Koller
, Swiss Federal Councilor
Jehan Sadat
, 3rd
First Lady of Egypt
(d.
2021
)
September
Conway Twitty
Karl Lagerfeld
David McCallum
Samora Machel
September 1
Ann Richards
, American politician (d.
2006
)
Conway Twitty
, American country music artist (d.
1993
)
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
Asha Bhosle
, Indian musician
Michael Frayn
, English playwright and novelist
September 9
–
Michael Novak
, American philosopher, author (d.
2017
)
September 10
Yevgeny Khrunov
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2000
)
Karl Lagerfeld
, German fashion designer, artist (d.
2019
)
September 11
William Luther Pierce
, American author, activist (d.
2002
)
Rachid Sfar
, 4th
Prime Minister of Tunisia
September 14
Harve Presnell
, American actor and singer (d.
2009
)
Hillevi Rombin
, Swedish athlete, model and
Miss Universe 1955
(d.
1996
)
September 15
Henry Darrow
, Puerto-Rican American actor (d.
2021
)
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
, Spanish conductor (d.
2014
)
September 17
Chuck Grassley
, American politician
Evelyn Kawamoto
, American competition swimmer (d.
2017
)
September 18
Bob Bennett
, American politician and businessman (d.
2016
)
Robert Blake
, American actor (d.
2023
)
Scotty Bowman
, Canadian ice hockey coach
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
Greg Morris
, African-American actor (d.
1996
)
Nagesh
, Indian actor and comedian (d.
2009
)
Will Sampson
, American actor (d.
1987
)
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
Daniel Massey
, English actor (d.
1998
)
Jay Sebring
, American hair stylist (d.
1969
)
October 13
–
Mark Zakharov
, Soviet and Russian film and theater director (d.
2019
)
October 17
William Anders
, American astronaut (d.
2024
)
Jeanine Deckers
, Belgian nun, known as "The Singing Nun" (d.
1985
)
October 18
–
Firuz Mustafayev
, Azerbaijani politician (d.
2018
)
October 19
–
Dom Geraldo Majella
, Brazilian Roman Catholic Cardinal
October 24
Reginald Kray
, British gangster (d.
2000
)
Ronald Kray
, British gangster (d.
1995
)
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
John Barry
, British film score composer (d.
2011
)
Ken Berry
, American actor, dancer and singer (d.
2018
)
Jeremy Brett
, British actor (d.
1995
)
Michael Dukakis
, American politician,
1988
Democratic Presidential candidate
Amartya Sen
, Indian economist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
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
John Mayall
, English blues musician
Francisco Cuoco
, Brazilian actor
James Rosenquist
, American artist (d.
2017
)
December
Abel Pacheco
Emperor
Akihito
December 1
Fujiko Fujio
, Japanese cartoonist (d.
1996
)
Lou Rawls
, African-American singer (d.
2006
)
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
Phan Văn Khải
, 5th
Prime Minister of Vietnam
(d.
2018
)
Joachim Meisner
, German cardinal (d.
2017
)
December 26
–
Caroll Spinney
, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (d.
2019
)
1934:
List
January
Leonid Kravchuk
Jean Chrétien
Bill Bixby
Édith Cresson
January 1
–
Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga
, Ecuadorian cardinal (d.
2020
)
January 4
Hellmuth Karasek
, German journalist, literary critic, and novelist (d.
2015
)
Rudolf Schuster
, 2nd
President of Slovakia
January 6
–
Sylvia Syms
, English actress
January 7
Charles Jenkins
, American athlete
Tassos Papadopoulos
, Cypriot politician, 5th
President of Cyprus
(d.
2008
)
January 8
Jacques Anquetil
, French racing cyclist (d.
1987
)
Piet Dankert
, Dutch politician (d.
2003
)
Roy Kinnear
, English actor (d.
1988
)
January 9
–
Bart Starr
, American football player and coach (d.
2019
)
January 10
–
Leonid Kravchuk
, 1st
President of Ukraine
(d.
2022
)
January 11
Jean Chrétien
, 20th
Prime Minister of Canada
Mitchell Ryan
, American actor (d.
2022
)
Sven Wollter
, Swedish actor (d.
2020
)
January 14
–
Richard Briers
, English actor (d.
2013
)
January 16
Marilyn Horne
, American mezzo-soprano
Vasily Lanovoy
, Soviet and Russian actor (d.
2021
)
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
Ernesto Brambilla
, Italian motorcycle road racer (d.
2020
)
James Franciscus
, American actor (d.
1991
)
Eva Mozes Kor
, Romanian Holocaust survivor and author (d.
2019
)
February
Hank Aaron
Manuel Noriega
Bill Russell
Bettino Craxi
February 5
–
Hank Aaron
, African-American baseball player (d.
2021
)
February 7
Eddie Fenech Adami
, 10th
Prime Minister of Malta
and 7th
President of Malta
Juan Corona
, Mexican serial killer (d.
2019
)
King Curtis
, African-American saxophonist (d.
1971
)
February 8
–
Galina Bystrova
, Soviet athlete (d.
1999
)
February 11
Maryse Condé
, French novelist, critic, and playwright (d.
2024
)
Tina Louise
, American actress (
Gilligan's Island
)
Manuel Noriega
, Panamanian military dictator (d.
2017
)
Mary Quant
, British fashion designer (d.
2023
)
John Surtees
, British racing driver (d.
2017
)
February 12
Anne Krueger
, American economist
Bill Russell
, African-American basketball player and coach (d.
2022
)
February 13
–
George Segal
, American actor (d.
2021
)
February 14
–
Florence Henderson
, American actress, singer and television personality (d.
2016
)
February 15
–
Niklaus Wirth
, Swiss computer scientist (d.
2024
)
February 17
Sir
Alan Bates
, English actor (d.
2003
)
Barry Humphries
, Australian actor, comedian (d.
2023
)
February 18
Anna Maria Ferrero
, Italian actress (d.
2018
)
Paco Rabanne
, Spanish fashion designer (d.
2023
)
February 20
–
Bobby Unser
, American race car driver (d.
2021
)
February 21
–
Rue McClanahan
, American actress (d.
2010
)
February 24
Bettino Craxi
,
Prime Minister of Italy
(d.
2000
)
Renata Scotto
, Italian soprano (d.
2023
)
Bingu wa Mutharika
, 3rd
President of Malawi
(d.
2012
)
February 27
Ralph Nader
, American consumer activist, presidential candidate
Van Williams
, American actor (d.
2016
)
March
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Arkin
Richard Chamberlain
Shirley Jones
March 1
–
Joan Hackett
, American actress (d.
1983
)
March 4
Anne Haney
, American actress (d.
2001
)
Barbara McNair
, African-American singer and actress (d.
2007
)
Gia Scala
, British actress (d.
1972
)
March 5
Daniel Kahneman
, Israeli economist and
Nobel
laureate (d.
2024
)
James Sikking
, American actor
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
Del Close
, American actor, writer, and teacher (d.
1999
)
Yuri Gagarin
, Russian cosmonaut, first human in space (d.
1968
)
Joyce Van Patten
, American actress
March 14
Eugene Cernan
, American astronaut (d.
2017
)
Dionigi Tettamanzi
, Italian cardinal (d.
2017
)
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
Willie Brown
, African-American politician
David Malouf
, Australian writer
March 21
–
Al Freeman Jr.
, African-American actor (d.
2012
)
March 22
May Britt
, Swedish actress
Orrin Hatch
, American politician (d.
2022
)
March 23
–
Ludvig Faddeev
, Russian physicist and mathematician (d.
2017
)
March 25
Johnny Burnette
, American
rockabilly
singer, songwriter and musician (d.
1964
)
Gloria Steinem
, American feminist
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
Richard Chamberlain
, American actor
Shirley Jones
, American singer, actress and first wife of
Jack Cassidy
Carlo Rubbia
, Italian physicist and
Nobel
laureate
Kamala Surayya
,
Indian English
poet (d.
2009
)
April
Roman Herzog
Shirley MacLaine
April 1
Jim Ed Brown
, American country singer (d.
2015
)
Vladimir Pozner Jr.
, Russian journalist
Pascal Rakotomavo
, 10th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d.
2010
)
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
Jayakanthan
, Tamil writer (d.
2015
)
Shirley MacLaine
, American actress, dancer, writer
April 29
Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires
,
President of Cape Verde
Akira Takarada
, Japanese actor (d.
2022
)
Otis Rush
, African-American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d.
2018
)
May
Frankie Valli
Harlan Ellison
May 3
Henry Cooper
, British boxer (d.
2011
)
Georges Moustaki
, Egyptian-French singer and songwriter (d.
2013
)
Frankie Valli
, American musician (
The Four Seasons
)
May 4
–
Tatiana Samoilova
, Russian actress (d.
2014
)
May 6
–
Richard Shelby
, American politician
May 9
Alan Bennett
, British playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author
Lee Hong-koo
, South Korean politician, 26th
Prime Minister of South Korea
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
Dame
Eileen Atkins
, British actress
Bill Cobbs
, African-American actor
William F. Sharpe
, American economist and
Nobel
laureate
June 18
Barack Obama Sr.
, Kenyan economist (d.
1982
)
Mitsuteru Yokoyama
, Japanese manga artist (d.
2004
)
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
Carl Levin
, American politician (d.
2021
)
Michael Artin
, American mathematician
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
Claude Berri
, French actor, film director and screenwriter (d.
2009
)
Jamie Farr
, American actor (
M*A*S*H
)
Jean Marsh
, English actress and writer
Sydney Pollack
, American film director (d.
2008
)
July 3
–
Stefan Abadzhiev
, Bulgarian football player
July 7
–
Kedarnath Singh
, Indian poet (d.
2018
)
July 8
Marty Feldman
, English comedy writer, comedian and actor (d.
1982
)
Rodney Stark
, American sociologist
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
Wole Soyinka
, Nigerian writer and
Nobel
laureate
Aleksei Yeliseyev
, Russian cosmonaut
July 14
Marisa Allasio
, Italian actress
Gotlib
, French comic artist (d.
2016
)
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
Edward Bond
, English playwright and director (d.
2024
)
Darlene Conley
, American actress (d.
2007
)
Roger Reynolds
, American composer
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
Eric del Castillo
, Mexican actor
Louise Fletcher
, American actress (d.
2022
)
Leon Rotman
, Romanian sprint canoeist
July 25
–
Claude Zidi
, French film director
July 28
Ron Flowers
, English footballer (d.
2021
)
Bud Luckey
, American voice actor,
Pixar
animator (d.
2018
)
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
Wendell Berry
, American novelist, poet, essayist
Ronnie Clayton
, English footballer (d.
2010
)
Vern Gosdin
, American country music singer (d.
2009
)
August 6
–
Chris Bonington
, British mountaineer
August 9
–
Cynthia Harris
, American actress (d.
2021
)
August 13
–
Gyoji Matsumoto
, Japanese footballer (d.
2019
)
August 15
Nino Ferrer
, French singer (d.
1998
)
André Bo-Boliko Lokonga
, Congolese politician (d.
2018
)
August 16
Diana Wynne Jones
, British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic (d.
2011
)
Pierre Richard
, French actor, film director and screenwriter
August 18
Vincent Bugliosi
, American prosecutor, author (d.
2015
)
Ronnie Carroll
, Northern Irish singer (d.
2015
)
Roberto Clemente
, Puerto Rican
Major League Baseball
player (d.
1972
)
Gulzar
, Indian film director, lyricist and poet
August 20
Armi Kuusela
,
Miss Universe 1952
from
Finland
Sam Panopoulos
, Greek-born Canadian cook and businessman (d.
2017
)
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
Zilda Arns
, Brazilian pediatrician, aid worker (d.
2010
)
Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
, 4th
President of Iran
(d.
2017
)
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
Clive Granger
, Welsh-born economist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2009
)
Juraj Herz
, Slovak film director, actor, and scenic designer (d.
2018
)
Eduard Khil
, Russian baritone singer ("
Trololo
") (d.
2012
)
Zaid ibn Shaker
, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d.
2002
)
Jan Švankmajer
, Czech filmmaker, artist
September 5
–
Ricardo de la Espriella
,
President of Panama
September 6
–
Marshall Rosenberg
, American psychologist and writer (d.
2015
)
September 7
Sunil Gangopadhyay
, Indian author and poet (d.
2012
)
Omar Karami
, 29th
Prime Minister of Lebanon
(d.
2015
)
September 8
–
Peter Maxwell Davies
, English composer (d.
2016
)
September 9
Nicholas Liverpool
, Dominican lawyer, politician, and 6th
President of Dominica
(d.
2015
)
Waldo Machado
, Brazilian footballer (d.
2019
)
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
Elgin Baylor
, African-American basketball player, coach and executive (d.
2021
)
George Chakiris
, American dancer, singer, and actor
Ronnie Drew
, Irish singer (d.
2008
)
Tamara Manina
, Soviet artistic gymnast
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
Sophia Loren
, Italian actress
Hamit Kaplan
, Turkish wrestler (d.
1976
)
Takayuki Kubota
, Japanese martial artist, founder of the
Gosoku-ryu
style of karate
September 21
Leonard Cohen
, Canadian poet, novelist, singer and songwriter (d.
2016
)
David J. Thouless
, Scottish-born condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics
(d.
2019
)
María Rubio
, Mexican actress (d.
2018
)
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
October 1
–
Emilio Botín
, Spanish banker (d.
2014
)
October 7
Amiri Baraka
, African-American poet, playwright and activist (d.
2014
)
Willie Naulls
, American basketball player (d.
2018
)
October 9
Jacobo Majluta Azar
, 47th
President of the Dominican Republic
(d.
1996
)
Harald Grønningen
, Norwegian cross-country skier (d.
2016
)
Abdullah Ibrahim
, South African pianist and composer
October 12
–
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani
, Prime Minister of Yemen (d.
2015
)
October 13
–
Nana Mouskouri
, Greek singer
October 17
Johnny Haynes
, English footballer (d.
2005
)
Rico Rodriguez
, Cuban-British musician (d.
2015
)
October 18
Calvin Lockhart
, Bahamian–American actor (d.
2007
)
Inger Stevens
, Swedish actress (d.
1970
)
October 19
–
Yakubu Gowon
, Nigerian politician
October 20
Eddie Harris
, African-American jazz musician (d.
1996
)
Empress Michiko
, Empress consort of Japan
Timothy West
, English actor
October 29
–
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
(d.
2017
)
October 30
–
Frans Brüggen
, Dutch musician (d.
2014
)
October 31
–
Princess Margaretha
, Princess of Sweden
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
Victor Argo
, American actor (d.
2004
)
Kira Muratova
, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress (d.
2018
)
November 9
Ingvar Carlsson
, 2-time
Prime Minister of Sweden
Hamilton Green
, 4th
Prime Minister of Guyana
Carl Sagan
, American astronomer, writer, and television host (
Cosmos
) (d.
1996
)
Tengiz Sigua
, 2nd
Prime Minister of Georgia
(d.
2020
)
November 10
–
Joanna Moore
, American actress (d.
1997
)
November 11
Elżbieta Krzesińska
, Polish athlete (d.
2015
)
Nadine Trintignant
, French film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, and novelist
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
Fairuz
, Lebanese singer
Lev Polugaevsky
, Soviet chess player (d.
1995
)
November 23
–
Lew Hoad
, Australian tennis champion (d.
1994
)
November 24
–
Alfred Schnittke
, Volga German composer (d.
1998
)
November 26
Jamshid Mashayekhi
, Iranian actor (d.
2019
)
Lyudmila Shevtsova
, Soviet athlete
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
Judi Dench
, English actress
Junior Wells
, American harmonica player (d.
1998
)
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
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
, 6th President of Somalia (d.
2012
)
Stanislav Shushkevich
, Belarusian politician and scientist (d.
2022
)
December 18
Marc Rich
, Belgian-born American commodities trader and criminal (d.
2013
)
Boris Volynov
, Russian cosmonaut
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
Larisa Latynina
, Ukrainian gymnast
Nikolai Slichenko
, Russian singer (d.
2021
)
December 28
Alasdair Gray
, Scottish writer and artist (d.
2019
)
Maggie Smith
, English actress
Yujiro Ishihara
, Japanese actor (d.
1987
)
December 29
–
Ed Flanders
, American actor (d.
1995
)
December 30
John Norris Bahcall
, American astrophysicist (d.
2005
)
Joseph Bologna
, American actor (d.
2017
)
Del Shannon
, American singer (d.
1990
)
Russ Tamblyn
, American actor
1935:
List
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
Ronnie Hawkins
, American musician (d.
2022
)
Sherrill Milnes
, American baritone
January 14
–
Lucile Wheeler
, Canadian skier
January 15
–
Luigi Radice
, Italian footballer and manager (d.
2018
)
January 16
A. J. Foyt
, American race car driver
Udo Lattek
, German footballer and coach (d.
2015
)
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
Conrad Burns
, American politician (d.
2016
)
António Ramalho Eanes
, 16th
President of Portugal
January 30
Richard Brautigan
, American writer (d.
1984
)
Elsa Martinelli
, Italian actress and fashion model (d.
2017
)
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
Brian Bedford
, English actor (d.
2016
)
Sonny Bono
, American singer, actor and politician (d.
1998
)
February 17
Christina Pickles
, British-American actress
Hrvoje Šarinić
, 4th
Prime Minister of Croatia
(d.
2017
)
February 18
Michel Aoun
, Lebanese politician, 26th
President of Lebanon
Anna Maria Ferrero
, Italian actress (d.
2018
)
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 (d.
2024
)
March 24
Peter Bichsel
, Swiss writer
Peret
, Spanish Romani musician (d.
2014
)
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
Fred Bongusto
, Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer (d.
2019
)
Luis del Sol
, Spanish footballer and manager (d.
2021
)
April 7
–
Bobby Bare
, American country singer
April 10
Nicola Cabibbo
, Italian physicist (d.
2010
)
P. J. Patterson
, Jamaican politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Jamaica
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
Charles Grodin
, American actor and journalist (d.
2021
)
Thomas Kean
, American businessman, academic and politician
April 22
Paul Chambers
, American jazz musician (d.
1969
)
Jerry Fodor
, American philosopher and cognitive scientist (d.
2017
)
April 25
Li Ao
, Chinese-Taiwanese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician (d.
2018
)
Roberto Ferreiro
, Argentine professional footballer and manager (d.
2017
)
Jim Peebles
, Canadian-born theoretical cosmologist, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics
April 27
–
Theo Angelopoulos
, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (d.
2012
)
May
Jack Charlton
Lee Meriwether
May 2
Faisal II of Iraq
(d.
1958
)
Luis Suárez
, Spanish footballer (d.
2023
)
May 8
Princess Elisabeth of Denmark
, Danish princess (d.
2018
)
Jack Charlton
, English footballer and manager (d.
2020
)
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
Johnny Bucyk
, Canadian professional ice hockey player
Gary Peacock
, American jazz double-bassist (d.
2020
)
May 14
–
Ivan Dimitrov
, Bulgarian footballer (d.
2019
)
May 15
–
Don Bragg
, American athlete (d.
2019
)
May 16
Yvon Douis
, French footballer (d.
2021
)
Milan Pančevski
, Macedonian politician (d.
2019
)
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
Lee Hoi-chang
, South Korean politician, 26th
Prime Minister of South Korea
Dimitri Kitsikis
, Greek Turkologist
Carol Shields
, American-born writer (d.
2003
)
June 3
Ted Curson
, American jazz musician (d.
2012
)
Enzo Jannacci
, Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian (d.
2013
)
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
Christo
, Bulgarian-American artist (d.
2020
)
Jeanne-Claude
, French-American artist (d.
2009
)
Samak Sundaravej
, 25th
Prime Minister of Thailand
(d.
2009
)
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
Monte Markham
, American actor
Françoise Sagan
, French writer (d.
2004
)
Agnes Simon
, Hungarian tennis player (d.
2020
)
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
James Cotton
, African-American harmonica player, singer and songwriter (d.
2017
)
David Prowse
, English bodybuilder, weightlifter and actor (d.
2020
)
July 3
Harrison Schmitt
, American geologist, NASA astronaut, professor and politician
John Swan
, Bermudian political figure; 4th
Premier of Bermuda
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
Steve Lawrence
, American singer and actor (d.
2024
)
Vitaly Sevastyanov
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2010
)
July 9
Wim Duisenberg
, Dutch economist, politician (d.
2005
)
Mercedes Sosa
, Argentine singer (d.
2009
)
July 12
Hans Tilkowski
, German footballer and manager (d.
2020
)
Satoshi Ōmura
, Japanese biochemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
July 13
Jack Kemp
, American football player, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate (d.
2009
)
Kurt Westergaard
, Danish cartoonist (d.
2021
)
July 14
–
Ei-ichi Negishi
, Japanese chemist and
Nobel
laureate (d.
2021
)
July 15
Alex Karras
, American football player, actor (d.
2012
)
Ken Kercheval
, American actor (d.
2019
)
July 16
–
Nicolae Rotaru
, Romanian sport shooter
July 17
Diahann Carroll
, African-American actress and singer (d.
2019
)
Donald Sutherland
, Canadian actor
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
Adnan Khashoggi
, Saudi Arabian international arms dealer (d.
2017
)
Barbara Harris
, American actress (d.
2018
)
July 30
–
Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco
, Moroccan prince (d.
1983
)
July 31
–
Geoffrey Lewis
, American actor (d.
2015
)
August
Ron Paul
Tsutomu Hata
William Friedkin
John Phillips
August 3
Omero Antonutti
, Italian actor (d.
2019
)
Georgy Shonin
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
1997
)
August 5
–
Michael Ballhaus
, German cinematographer (d.
2017
)
August 6
–
Mário Coluna
, Portuguese footballer (d.
2014
)
August 10
Giya Kancheli
, Georgian composer (d.
2019
)
Laurynas Stankevičius
, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d.
2017
)
August 12
Ján Popluhár
, Slovak footballer (d.
2011
)
John Cazale
, American actor (d.
1978
)
August 17
Katalin Szőke
, Hungarian swimmer (d.
2017
)
Oleg Tabakov
, Russian actor (d.
2018
)
August 18
Gail Fisher
, African-American actress (d.
2000
)
Rafer Johnson
, African-American athlete (d.
2020
)
August 19
–
Story Musgrave
, American physician and astronaut
August 20
–
Ron Paul
, American author, physician, and politician
August 21
Bernhard Eckstein
, German cyclist (d.
2017
)
Ahmad al-Ghashmi
, Yemeni general, 4th
President of the Yemen Arab Republic
(
North Yemen
) (d.
1978
)
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
Felipe Fernández García
, Spanish Catholic bishop (d.
2012
)
John Phillips
, American singer-songwriter (
The Mamas & the Papas
) (d.
2001
)
August 31
Eldridge Cleaver
, African-American political activist and writer (d.
1998
)
Frank Robinson
, African-American professional player, coach, and manager (d.
2019
)
September
Abdou Diouf
Chaim Topol
Jerry Lee Lewis
Johnny Mathis
September 1
Seiji Ozawa
, Japanese conductor
Chow Yei-ching
, Hong Kong executive (d.
2018
)
September 2
Yıldırım Akbulut
, 20th
Prime Minister of Turkey
(d.
2021
)
Valentin Gaft
, Soviet and Russian actor (d.
2020
)
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
Arvo Pärt
, Estonian composer
Gherman Titov
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2000
)
September 12
Harvey J. Alter
, American medical researcher, virologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Ján Popluhár
, Slovak footballer (d.
2011
)
September 14
Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga
, Ecuadorian musical artist (d.
2018
)
Fujio Akatsuka
, Japanese cartoonist (d.
2008
)
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
Jim Taylor
, American professional football player (d.
2018
)
László Aradszky
, Hungarian singer (d.
2017
)
September 21
Jimmy Armfield
, English footballer (d.
2018
)
Henry Gibson
, American actor and comedian (d.
2009
)
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
Jerry Lee Lewis
, American singer, songwriter, and pianist (d.
2022
)
Mylène Demongeot
, French actress and model (d.
2022
)
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
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
, African-American astronaut (d.
1967
)
Omar Sívori
, Argentinian footballer and manager (d.
2005
)
October 3
Charles Duke
, American astronaut
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
, Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (d.
2020
)
October 5
–
Tarcísio Meira
, Brazilian actor (d.
2021
)
October 6
Ernesto Laclau
, Argentine political theorist (d.
2014
)
Aly Lotfy Mahmoud
, Egyptian politician (d.
2018
)
Bruno Sammartino
, Italian professional wrestler (d.
2018
)
October 9
–
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
October 12
Don Howe
, English footballer and coach (d.
2015
)
Luciano Pavarotti
, Italian tenor (d.
2007
)
October 14
–
La Monte Young
, American composer
October 15
Barry McGuire
, American musician
Bobby Morrow
, American athlete (d.
2020
)
October 18
–
Peter Boyle
, American actor (d.
2006
)
October 19
–
Agne Simonsson
, Swedish footballer (d.
2020
)
October 20
Fabio Cudicini
, Italian footballer
Jerry Orbach
, American actor (d.
2004
)
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
Ágota Kristóf
, Hungarian writer (d.
2011
)
Michael Winner
, English film director and producer (d.
2013
)
October 31
Ronald Graham
, American mathematician (d.
2020
)
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
, Egyptian field marshal and politician (d.
2021
)
November
Charles Koch
Bibi Andersson
Hussein of Jordan
Mahmoud Abbas
November 1
Edward Said
, Palestinian-born literary critic (d.
2003
)
Charles Koch
, American businessman
Gary Player
, South-African professional golfer
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
Alain Delon
, French actor
Alfonso López Trujillo
, Colombian Cardinal (d.
2008
)
November 9
–
Bob Gibson
, African-American professional baseball player (d.
2020
)
November 11
–
Bibi Andersson
, Swedish actress (d.
2019
)
November 13
Tom Atkins
, American actor
P. Susheela
, Indian musician
November 14
– King
Hussein of Jordan
(d.
1999
)
November 15
Mahmoud Abbas
, President of the Palestine National Authority
Try Sutrisno
, Sixth vice president of Indonesia
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
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
, 1st
Prime Minister of Bahrain
(d.
2020
)
Leo Falcam
, Micronesian politician (d.
2018
)
Imre Makovecz
, Hungarian architect (d.
2011
)
November 22
–
Ludmila Belousova
, Russian pair skater (d.
2017
)
November 23
Mari Törőcsik
, Hungarian actress (d.
2021
)
Vladislav Volkov
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
1971
)
November 24
Ron Dellums
, African-American politician (d.
2018
)
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
, 1st
Prime Minister of Bahrain
(d.
2020
)
Salim Khan
, Indian screenwriter
November 28
–
Masahito, Prince Hitachi
November 29
–
Diane Ladd
, American actress
November 30
Kim Chong-hoh
, South Korean politician (d.
2018
)
Usha Mangeshkar
, Indian musician
December
Woody Allen
Pranab Mukherjee
Lee Remick
Salman of Saudi Arabia
December 1
Woody Allen
, American actor and film director
Roger Christian
, American professional ice hockey player (d.
2011
)
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
Dharmendra
, Indian film actor, producer and politician
Tatiana Zatulovskaya
, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (d.
2017
)
December 10
–
Jaromil Jireš
, Czechoslovak filmmaker (d.
2001
)
December 11
Ron Carey
, American actor (d.
2007
)
Pranab Mukherjee
, Indian politician, 13th
President of India
(d.
2020
)
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
, German car designer (d.
2012
)
December 14
Lewis Arquette
, American actor, writer and producer (d.
2001
)
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
, British actress
Lee Remick
, American actress (d.
1991
)
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
John G. Avildsen
, American film director (d.
2017
)
Lorenzo Bandini
, Italian racing driver (d.
1967
)
Phil Donahue
, American Television host
Edward Schreyer
, Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman
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
Omar Bongo
, 2nd
President of Gabon
(d.
2009
)
Sandy Koufax
, American baseball player
Jack Riley
, American actor (d.
2016
)
December 31
– King
Salman of Saudi Arabia
1936:
List
January
Julio María Sanguinetti
Émile Lahoud
Alan Alda
January 2
–
Roger Miller
, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d.
1992
)
January 6
Darlene Hard
, American tennis player (d.
2021
)
Alejandro Maldonado
, Guatemalan politician
Julio María Sanguinetti
, 2-time President of Uruguay
January 8
–
Robert May
, Australian scientist (d.
2020
)
January 10
Stephen E. Ambrose
, American historian and biographer (d.
2002
)
Burnum Burnum
, Australian Aboriginal activist, author and actor (d.
1997
)
Al Goldstein
, American photographer (d.
2016
)
Robert Wilson
, American physicist, radio astronomer, and
Nobel
laureate
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
Alan J. Heeger
, American physicist
Ong Teng Cheong
, 5th President of Singapore (d.
2002
)
January 23
–
Arlene Golonka
, American actress (d.
2021
)
January 25
–
Diana Hyland
, American actress (d.
1977
)
January 27
Barry Barish
, American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate
Troy Donahue
, American actor (d.
2001
)
Samuel C. C. Ting
, Chinese-American physicist
January 28
Waldyr Boccardo
, Brazilian basketball player (d.
2018
)
Alan Alda
, American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author
Ismail Kadare
, Albanian writer
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
Anna German
,
Polish
singer (d.
1982
)
Andrew Prine
, American actor (d.
2022
)
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
Alex Rocco
, American actor (d.
2015
)
Jack Lousma
, American astronaut
Henri Richard
, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
2020
)
March
F. W. De Klerk
Ursula Andress
Mario Vargas Llosa
March 1
–
Renato Corti
, Italian cardinal (d.
2020
)
March 4
Kim Yong-chun
, North Korean soldier, politician (d.
2018
)
Jim Clark
, Scottish race car driver (d.
1968
)
Aribert Reimann
, German composer
March 5
Canaan Banana
, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d.
2003
)
Dean Stockwell
, American actor (d.
2021
)
March 6
Marion Barry
, African-American civil rights activist and politician (d.
2014
)
Choummaly Sayasone
, 5th President of Laos
March 7
Antonio Mercero
, Spanish director (d.
2018
)
Loren Acton
, American astronaut
Julio Terrazas Sandoval
, Bolivian cardinal (d.
2015
)
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
Harald zur Hausen
, German virologist (d.
2023
)
Antonin Scalia
,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
(d.
2016
)
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
Ursula Andress
, Swiss actress
Uri Aviram
, Israeli university professor
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
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
, 2-time President of Switzerland (d.
1998
)
Abdul Qadeer Khan
, Pakistani nuclear physicist (d.
2021
)
April 2
–
Abdelhamid Brahimi
, 3rd
Prime Minister of Algeria
(d.
2021
)
April 9
Valerie Solanas
, American feminist writer who attempted to kill
Andy Warhol
(d.
1988
)
Michael Somare
, 1st
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
(d.
2021
)
April 10
–
John Madden
, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d.
2021
)
April 12
–
Charles Napier
, American actor (d.
2011
)
April 14
Ivan Dias
, Indian cardinal (d.
2017
)
Frank Serpico
, American detective
April 15
Raymond Poulidor
, French professional racing cyclist (d.
2019
)
Pen Sovan
, Cambodian politician (d.
2016
)
April 19
–
Wilfried Martens
, 44th
Prime Minister of Belgium
(d.
2013
)
April 20
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
(d.
1989
)
Pauli Ellefsen
, 6th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d.
2012
)
April 22
–
Glen Campbell
, American singer and actor (d.
2017
)
April 23
–
Roy Orbison
, American singer, songwriter (d.
1988
)
April 24
Akwasi Afrifa
, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (d.
1979
)
Jill Ireland
, English actress (d.
1990
)
April 28
–
Tariq Aziz
, Iraqi politician (d.
2015
)
April 29
Zubin Mehta
, Indian conductor
Adolfo Nicolás
, Spanish priest (d.
2020
)
Lane Smith
, American actor (d.
2005
)
May
Glenda Jackson
Albert Finney
Louis Gossett Jr.
May 1
–
Danièle Huillet
, French filmmaker (d.
2006
)
May 2
Norma Aleandro
, Argentinian actress
Engelbert Humperdinck
, British singer
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
Albert Finney
, English actor (d.
2019
)
Glenda Jackson
, English actress and politician (d.
2023
)
Ernest Shonekan
, 9th Head of State of
Nigeria
(d.
2022
)
May 12
Guillermo Endara
, 32nd
President of Panama
(d.
2009
)
Klaus Doldinger
, German musician
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
Günter Blobel
, Polish-American biologist, academic and
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2018
)
Abdul Taib Mahmud
, Malaysian politician (d.
2024
)
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 (d.
2024
)
June
Bruce Dern
Kris Kristofferson
B. J. Habibie
Kigeli V of Rwanda
June 2
–
Volodymyr Holubnychy
, Soviet Olympic athlete (d.
2021
)
June 3
Larry McMurtry
, American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (d.
2021
)
Colin Meads
, New Zealand rugby union player (d.
2017
)
June 4
Bruce Dern
, American actor
Nutan Samarth
, Indian actress (d.
1991
)
June 8
James Darren
, American actor and singer
Kenneth G. Wilson
, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (d.
2013
)
June 15
Claude Brasseur
, French actor (d.
2020
)
William Levada
, American cardinal (d.
2019
)
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
Kris Kristofferson
, American actor, singer and songwriter
Izatullo Khayoyev
, 1st
Prime Minister of Tajikistan
(d.
2015
)
Ferran Olivella
, Spanish footballer (d.
2023
)
Hermeto Pascoal
, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist
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
Hal Greer
, African-American professional basketball player (d.
2018
)
Jean-Claude Turcotte
, Canadian cardinal (d.
2015
)
June 27
Geneviève Fontanel
, French stage, film actress (d.
2018
)
Joe Doyle
, Irish politician (d.
2009
)
June 28
–
Leon O. Chua
, American electrical engineer and computer scientist
June 29
David Jenkins
, American figure skater
Harmon Killebrew
, American professional baseball player (d.
2011
)
Kigeli V of Rwanda
, last king of Rwanda (d.
2016
)
June 30
Assia Djebar
, Algerian writer (d.
2015
)
Tony Musante
, American actor (d.
2013
)
July
Shirley Knight
Yasuo Fukuda
Elizabeth Dole
July 2
–
Omar Suleiman
, Egyptian general, diplomat, and intelligence officer (d.
2012
)
July 5
Sir
Frederick Ballantyne
, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d.
2020
)
Shirley Knight
, American actress (d.
2020
)
Sir
James Mirrlees
, Scottish-born economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d.
2018
)
July 14
–
Robert F. Overmyer
, American astronaut (d.
1996
)
July 15
Larry Cohen
, American film director (d.
2019
)
George Voinovich
, American politician (d.
2016
)
July 16
Miria Obote
, former First Lady of Uganda
Leo Sterckx
, Belgian cyclist (d.
2023
)
Yasuo Fukuda
, 58th
Prime Minister of Japan
July 20
Saginaw Grant
, Native-American actor (d.
2021
)
Barbara Mikulski
, American politician
July 23
–
Anthony Kennedy
,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
July 24
Ruth Buzzi
, American actress, comedian, and singer
Dan Inosanto
, American martial arts instructor
July 25
August Schellenberg
, Canadian-American actor (d.
2013
)
Dave Sime
, American athlete (d.
2016
)
July 29
–
Elizabeth Dole
, American politician
July 30
Infanta Pilar de Borbón
, Spanish royal (d.
2020
)
Buddy Guy
, African-American blues singer and guitarist
August
Robert Redford
Wilt Chamberlain
John McCain
August 1
Yves Saint Laurent
, Algerian-born French fashion designer (d.
2008
)
Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi
, Tunisian consort (d.
2019
)
August 5
–
John Saxon
, American actor (d.
2020
)
August 6
–
Dražan Jerković
, Croatian footballer and manager (d.
2008
)
August 12
Kjell Grede
, Swedish film director (d.
2017
)
André Kolingba
,
President of Central African Republic
(d.
2010
)
John Poindexter
, 13th
United States National Security Advisor
August 13
–
Vyjayanthimala
, Indian actress, dancer, singer, dance choreographer and parliamentarian
August 16
–
Alan Hodgkinson
, English professional footballer and coach (d.
2015
)
August 17
Margaret Hamilton
, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner
Floyd Westerman
, American actor, activist (d.
2007
)
August 18
Hifikepunye Pohamba
, 2nd
President of Namibia
Robert Redford
, American actor and film director
August 20
Míriam Colón
, Puerto Rican actress (d.
2017
)
Hideki Shirakawa
, Japanese chemist
August 21
Wilt Chamberlain
, African-American basketball player (d.
1999
)
Feliciano Rivilla
, Spanish footballer (d.
2017
)
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia
, (d.
2008
)
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
Buddy Holly
, American rock-and-roll singer, songwriter, and musician (d.
1959
)
Bruce Gray
, Puerto Rican-Canadian actor (d.
2017
)
September 11
–
Charles Dierkop
, American actor (d.
2024
)
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
Pierre Carniti
, Italian politician and trade unionist (d.
2018
)
Gianfranco Leoncini
, Italian footballer (d.
2019
)
Moussa Traoré
, 2nd
President of Mali
(d.
2020
)
September 26
–
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
, South African anti-apartheid activist (d.
2018
)
September 27
Don Cornelius
, American TV show host, and producer (d.
2012
)
Joselo
, Venezuelan actor, comedian (d.
2013
)
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
Cliff Gorman
, American actor (d.
2002
)
Christine Nöstlinger
, Austrian writer (d.
2018
)
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
David Nelson
, American actor (d.
2011
)
Bill Wyman
, British musician (
The Rolling Stones
)
October 26
–
Shelley Morrison
, American actress (d.
2019
)
October 28
Charlie Daniels
, American country singer, and songwriter (d.
2020
)
Joe Spinell
, American actor (d.
1988
)
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
Ivan Stambolić
, Serbian politician (d.
2000
)
Uwe Seeler
, German footballer and manager (d.
2022
)
November 8
Edward Gibson
, American astronaut
Virna Lisi
, Italian actress (d.
2014
)
November 9
Mikhail Tal
, Soviet-Latvian chess player (d.
1992
)
Mary Travers
, American singer-songwriter (d.
2009
)
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
Dahlia Ravikovitch
, Israeli poet (d.
2005
)
Lazarus Salii
, 3rd President of Palau (d.
1988
)
November 18
–
Don Cherry
, African-American jazz trumpeter (d.
1995
)
November 19
Dick Cavett
, American talk show host, television personality
Ljubiša Samardžić
, Serbian actor and director (d.
2017
)
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
Iolanda Balaș
, Romanian high jumper (d.
2016
)
Reggie Young
, American musician and guitarist (d.
2019
)
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
Pope Francis
, Argentine-born Catholic Pontiff
Klaus Kinkel
, German politician (d.
2019
)
December 20
–
Niki Bettendorf
, Luxembourgian politician (d.
2018
)
December 22
Héctor Elizondo
, American actor
Fred Malek
, American business executive, political adviser and philanthropist (d.
2019
)
December 23
Frederic Forrest
, American actor (d.
2023
)
James Stacy
, American actor (d.
2016
)
December 25
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Ismail Merchant
, Indian film director and producer (d.
2005
)
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
1937:
List
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
Grace Bumbry
, American opera singer (d.
2023
)
Dyan Cannon
, American actress, film director and screenwriter
January 6
Paolo Conte
, Italian singer, pianist and composer
Ludvík Daněk
, Czechoslovak discus thrower (d.
1998
)
Harri Holkeri
, 36th
Prime Minister of Finland
(d.
2011
)
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
Leo Kadanoff
, American physicist (d.
2015
)
Billie Jo Spears
, American country singer (d.
2011
)
January 15
–
Margaret O'Brien
, American actress
January 16
–
Francis George
, American cardinal (d.
2015
)
January 18
Yukio Endo
, Japanese gymnast (d.
2009
)
John Hume
, Northern Irish politician,
Nobel Peace Prize
laureate (d.
2020
)
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
Ange-Félix Patassé
, 5th
President of Central African Republic
(d.
2011
)
Gregory Sierra
, American actor (d.
2021
)
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
Vanessa Redgrave
, British actress
Boris Spassky
, Russian chess grandmaster
January 31
Philip Glass
, American composer
Suzanne Pleshette
, American actress (d.
2008
)
February
Rupiah Banda
Nancy Wilson
Harald V of Norway
February 1
Don Everly
, American
rock and roll
musician (
The Everly Brothers
) (d.
2021
)
Garrett Morris
, African-American actor and comedian
February 2
–
Eric Arturo Delvalle
, Panamanian lawyer (d.
2015
)
February 3
Jacques Barrot
, French politician (d.
2014
)
Billy Meier
, Swiss Cult Leader and author
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
Rupiah Banda
, 4th
President of Zambia
(d.
2022
)
Sigmund Jähn
, German cosmonaut and pilot (d.
2019
)
February 17
Mary Ann Mobley
, American actress (d.
2014
)
Benjamin Whitrow
, English actor (d.
2017
)
February 19
–
David Margulies
, American actor (d.
2016
)
February 20
Robert Huber
, German chemist and
Nobel
laureate
Nancy Wilson
, African-American singer and actress (d.
2018
)
February 21
Ron Clarke
, Australian runner (d.
2015
)
King
Harald V of Norway
Georgy Prokopenko
, Soviet athlete (d.
2021
)
Gary Lockwood
, American actor
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
Bobby Driscoll
, American child actor and voice actor (d.
1968
)
Tsukasa Hosaka
, Japanese footballer and manager (d.
2018
)
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
Attilio Nicora
, Italian cardinal (d.
2017
)
Amos Tversky
, Israeli psychologist (d.
1996
)
March 18
–
Rudi Altig
, German cyclist (d.
2016
)
March 19
–
Egon Krenz
, German politician
March 20
Helmut Recknagel
, German athlete
Jerry Reed
, American singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist (d.
2008
)
March 22
Angelo Badalamenti
, American composer (d.
2022
)
Armin Hary
, German athlete
Jon Hassell
, American trumpeter and composer (d.
2021
)
March 23
Tony Burton
, African-American actor and boxer (d.
2016
)
Robert Gallo
, American biomedical researcher
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
Colin Powell
, African-American politician, 65th
U.S. Secretary of State
(d.
2021
)
Maryanne Trump Barry
, American attorney (d.
2023
)
Guido Vildoso
, 59th
President of Bolivia
April 6
Merle Haggard
, American country musician (d.
2016
)
Billy Dee Williams
, African-American actor
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
Dennis Banks
, Native-American activist, teacher, and author (d.
2017
)
Igor Volk
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2017
)
April 13
José Augusto
, Portuguese footballer
Edward Fox
, English actor
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
Robert Hooks
, African-American actor, producer, and activist
Jan Kaplický
, Czech architect (d.
2009
)
Tatyana Shchelkanova
, Russian athlete (d.
2011
)
April 19
Antonio Carluccio
, Italian-born restaurateur (d.
2017
)
Elinor Donahue
, American actress
Joseph Estrada
, Filipino actor and politician, 13th
President of the Philippines
April 20
–
George Takei
, Japanese-American actor, director and author (
Star Trek
)
April 22
Jack Nicholson
, American actor, director
Jack Nitzsche
, American composer (d.
2000
)
April 24
–
Joe Henderson
, African-American jazz saxophonist (d.
2001
)
April 26
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
, French racing driver (d.
2015
)
Bob Boozer
, African-American basketball player (d.
2012
)
Stan Swamy
, Indian catholic priest and human rights activist (d.
2021
)
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
Ron Carter
, African-American jazz musician
Dick Dale
, American guitarist (d.
2019
)
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
Trevor Baylis
, English Inventor (d.
2018
)
Roger Zelazny
, American writer (d.
1995
)
May 15
Madeleine Albright
, American politician and diplomat, 64th
U.S. Secretary of State
(d.
2022
)
Trini Lopez
, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d.
2020
)
May 16
Yvonne Craig
, American actress (
Batman
) (d.
2015
)
Robert B. Wilson
, American economist
May 18
Brooks Robinson
, American professional baseball player (d.
2023
)
Jacques Santer
, Luxembourg politician, 20th
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
May 21
Sofiko Chiaureli
, Georgian actress (d.
2008
)
Mengistu Haile Mariam
,
President of Ethiopia
May 22
Facundo Cabral
, Argentine singer (d.
2011
)
Viktor Ponedelnik
, Russian footballer and manager (d.
2020
)
May 30
–
Aleksandr Demyanenko
, Russian actor (d.
1999
)
June
Morgan Freeman
Simeon II
Ronald Venetiaan
Martti Ahtisaari
Robert Coleman Richardson
June 1
Morgan Freeman
, African-American actor
Colleen McCullough
, Australian author (d.
2015
)
Ezio Pascutti
, Italian footballer (d.
2017
)
June 2
–
Sally Kellerman
, American actress (d.
2022
)
June 4
Hugo Carvana
, Brazilian actor (d.
2014
)
Freddy Fender
, American singer and guitarist (d.
2006
)
Gorilla Monsoon
, American professional wrestler, announcer (d.
1999
)
Mortimer Zuckerman
, Canadian-American magazine editor and investor
June 7
–
Neeme Järvi
, Estonian conductor
June 8
–
Bruce McCandless II
, American astronaut (d.
2017
)
June 10
Richard Foreman
, American playwright
Luciana Paluzzi
, Italian-American actress
June 11
Chad Everett
, American actor (d.
2012
)
Robin Warren
, Australian pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 12
–
Vladimir Arnold
, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d.
2010
)
June 13
Eleanor Holmes Norton
, African-American politician
Raj Reddy
, Indian computer scientist
June 14
–
Jorgen Leth
, Danish poet and film director
June 15
–
Waylon Jennings
, American country singer (d.
2002
)
June 16
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
,
Tsar of Bulgaria
(1943-1946), 48th
Prime Minister of Bulgaria
(2001-2005)
Erich Segal
, American author, screenwriter and educator (d.
2010
)
June 17
–
Clodovil Hernandes
, Brazilian fashion designer (d.
2009
)
June 18
Gail Godwin
, American novelist
Jay Rockefeller
, American politician
Ronald Venetiaan
, 6th and 8th
President of Suriname
Vitaly Zholobov
, Soviet cosmonaut
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
Eddie Floyd
, African-American musician
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
, Crown Prince of Kuwait (d.
2023
)
Keizō Obuchi
, 54th
Prime Minister of Japan
(d.
2000
)
June 26
Sombat Metanee
, Thai actor, and film director (d.
2022
)
Robert Coleman Richardson
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2013
)
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
Polly Holliday
, American actress
Richard Petty
, American stock car racer, 7-time
NASCAR Winston Cup
champion
July 3
–
Tom Stoppard
, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
July 4
Thomas Nagel
, American philosopher
Queen Sonja of Norway
July 5
–
Jo de Roo
, Dutch road racing cyclist
July 6
Vladimir Ashkenazy
, Russian pianist
Ned Beatty
, American actor (d.
2021
)
Gene Chandler
, African-American singer, songwriter and record producer
Bessie Head
, South African writer (d.
1986
)
Michael Sata
, 5th
President of Zambia
(d.
2014
)
July 7
Giovanni Arrighi
, Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst (d.
2009
)
Tung Chee-hwa
, Hong Kong businessman and politician
July 9
–
David Hockney
, English-born artist
July 11
–
Pai Hsien-yung
, Taiwanese writer
July 12
Raymond Ceulemans
, Belgian billiards player
Bill Cosby
, African-American actor, comedian, educator and convicted sex offender
Lionel Jospin
, French politician, 93rd
Prime Minister of France
July 14
–
Yoshirō Mori
, 55th
Prime Minister of Japan
July 16
–
Richard Bryan
, American attorney and politician
July 18
Roald Hoffmann
, Polish-born chemist and
Nobel
laureate
Hunter S. Thompson
, American author and journalist (d.
2005
)
July 19
George Hamilton IV
, American country musician, singer and songwriter (d.
2014
)
Richard Jordan
, American actor (d.
1993
)
July 20
–
Ken Ogata
, Japanese actor (d.
2008
)
July 22
Chuck Jackson
, American R&B singer (d.
2023
)
Hiro Matsuda
, Japanese professional wrestler (d.
1999
)
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
Don Galloway
, American actor (d.
2009
)
Mirko Marjanović
, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (d.
2006
)
July 28
–
Francis Veber
, French film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright
July 29
Ryutaro Hashimoto
, 53rd
Prime Minister of Japan
(d.
2006
)
Daniel McFadden
, American economist and
Nobel
laureate
July 30
–
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
, Iraqi diplomat and politician
July 31
Isabelle Daniels
, American athlete (d.
2017
)
Sab Shimono
, Japanese–American actor
August
Manuel Pinto da Costa
Dustin Hoffman
August 3
Steven Berkoff
, British actor
Roland Burris
, African-American politician and lawyer
Andrés Gimeno
, Spanish tennis player (d.
2019
)
August 5
Herb Brooks
, American ice hockey player and coach (d.
2003
)
Manuel Pinto da Costa
, Santoméan politician, 1st
President of São Tomé and Príncipe
August 6
Charlie Haden
, American jazz bassist (d.
2014
)
Barbara Windsor
, English actress (d.
2020
)
August 8
Dustin Hoffman
, American actor, filmmaker
Cornelis Vreeswijk
, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor (d.
1987
)
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
Donald Dewar
,
First Minister of Scotland
(d.
2000
)
Gustavo Noboa
, 42nd
President of Ecuador
(d.
2021
)
August 22
Rifaat al-Assad
, Syrian politician
Francesco Musso
, Italian Olympic boxer
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
Sergio Aragonés
, Spanish-born illustrator
Irina Solovyova
, Soviet cosmonaut
Jo Anne Worley
, American actress
September 7
–
John Phillip Law
, American actor (d.
2008
)
September 10
–
Jared Diamond
, American geographer, anthropologist, and author
September 11
Queen Paola of Belgium
Robert Crippen
, American astronaut
Joseph Kobzon
, Soviet-Russian singer and businessman (d.
2018
)
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
Robert Lucas Jr.
, American economist and
Nobel
laureate (d.
2023
)
Pino Puglisi
, Italian catholic priest (d.
1993
)
Fernando de la Rúa
, Argentine politician, 43rd
President of Argentina
(d.
2019
)
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
Rod Roddy
, American television announcer (d.
2003
)
Bob Schul
, American Olympic athlete
September 30
Jurek Becker
, Polish-born German writer (d.
1997
)
Valentyn Sylvestrov
, Ukrainian composer
October
Jackie Collins
Bobby Charlton
October 2
–
Johnnie Cochran
, African-American attorney (d.
2005
)
October 4
Jackie Collins
, English author (d.
2015
)
Franz Vranitzky
, 19th
Chancellor of Austria
October 11
Bobby Charlton
, English footballer (d.
2023
)
Ron Leibman
, American actor (d.
2019
)
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
Wanda Jackson
, American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
Juan Marichal
, Dominican professional baseball player
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
Claude Lelouch
, French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer
Ashaari Mohammad
, Malaysian spiritual leader (d.
2010
)
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
Ina Balin
, American actress (d.
1990
)
Richard H. Truly
, American astronaut and politician (d.
2024
)
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
Ingrid Pitt
, Polish-born British actress (d.
2010
)
Marlo Thomas
, American actress, producer and social activist (
That Girl
)
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
Bobby Allison
, American race car driver
Francisco Xavier do Amaral
, 1st President of East Timor (d.
2012
)
December 4
William Lombardy
, American chess grandmaster (d.
2017
)
Donnelly Rhodes
, Canadian actor (d.
2018
)
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
Sergio Jiménez
, Mexican actor (d.
2007
)
Jaime Lerner
, Brazilian architect (d.
2021
)
December 18
–
Sami-ul-Haq
, Pakistani cleric, politician (d.
2018
)
December 21
–
Jane Fonda
, American actress and activist
December 22
Pierluigi Chicca
, Italian fencer (d.
2016
)
Eduard Uspensky
, Russian author and screenwriter (d.
2018
)
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
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
, 3rd
President of the Maldives
Barbara Steele
, English actress
December 30
Gordon Banks
, English footballer (d.
2019
)
John Hartford
, American composer and musician (d.
2001
)
Raquel Olmedo
, Cuban-born Mexican actress and singer
Paul Stookey
, American singer-songwriter
December 31
Avram Hershko
, Israeli biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Anthony Hopkins
, Welsh actor
1938:
List
January
King
Juan Carlos I of Spain
Morihiro Hosokawa
Etta James
Vladimir Vysotsky
Beatrix of the Netherlands
January 1
Frank Langella
, American actor
Fuad Masum
, 9th
President of Iraq
January 2
Goh Kun
, 28th and 32nd
Prime Minister of South Korea
Bohumil Nemecek
, Czechoslovakian Olympic boxer (d.
2010
)
Robert Smithson
, American artist (d.
1973
)
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
Adriano Celentano
, Italian singer-songwriter, musician, actor and film director
Mario Rodriguez Cobos
, Argentine writer (d.
2010
)
January 7
Patrick John
, 1st
Prime Minister of Dominica
(d.
2021
)
Amfilohije Radović
, Serbian
Orthodox
prelate (d.
2020
)
Roland Topor
, French illustrator (d.
1997
)
January 8
–
Yevgeny Nesterenko
, Russian operatic singer (d.
2021
)
January 10
Donald Knuth
, American mathematician, computer scientist
Willie McCovey
, African-American baseball player (d.
2018
)
January 11
–
Fischer Black
, American economist (d.
1995
)
January 13
Daevid Allen
, Australian guitarist, singer, and composer (d.
2015
)
William B. Davis
, Canadian actor
Nachi Nozawa
, Japanese actor (d.
2010
)
Shivkumar Sharma
, Indian musician (d.
2022
)
January 14
Morihiro Hosokawa
, Japanese politician, 50th
Prime Minister of Japan
Jack Jones
, American singer
Allen Toussaint
, American musician, composer (d.
2015
)
January 16
Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
(d.
2015
)
Michael Pataki
, American actor (d.
2010
)
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
Giant Baba
, Japanese professional wrestler (d.
1999
)
Georg Baselitz
, German painter, sculptor
January 25
Etta James
, African-American singer (d.
2012
)
Shotaro Ishinomori
, Japanese manga artist, father of "Henshin Heroes" (d.
1998
)
Vladimir Vysotsky
, Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actor (d.
1980
)
January 28
Tomas Lindahl
, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Leonid Zhabotinsky
, Ukrainian weightlifter (d.
2016
)
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
Emile Griffith
, American welterweight boxer (d.
2013
)
Waheeda Rehman
, Indian actress
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
Judy Blume
, American author
Félix Mourinho
, Portuguese footballer and manager (d.
2017
)
February 13
–
Oliver Reed
, English actor (d.
1999
)
February 16
–
Barry Primus
, American actor, director, and writer
February 18
Louis-Marie Billé
, French cardinal (d.
2002
)
István Szabó
, Hungarian film director
February 21
–
Lester Bird
, 2nd
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
(d.
2021
)
February 22
Barry Dennen
, American actor (d.
2017
)
Karin Dor
, German actress (d.
2017
)
Taha Yassin Ramadan
, 7th
Vice President of Iraq
(d.
2007
)
February 23
Jiří Menzel
, Czech film director, actor and screenwriter (d.
2020
)
Paul Morrissey
, American film director
February 24
James Farentino
, American actor (d.
2012
)
Phil Knight
, American sportswear entrepreneur
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
Alpha Condé
, 4th
President of Guinea
Paula Prentiss
, American actress
March 5
Lynn Margulis
, American biologist (d.
2011
)
Fred Williamson
, African-American football player and actor
March 7
David Baltimore
, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Derviş Eroğlu
, 3rd
President of Northern Cyprus
March 9
–
Lill-Babs
, Swedish singer and actress (d.
2018
)
March 14
Eleanor Bron
, English actress
Angus MacLise
, American musician and poet (d.
1979
)
March 16
–
Carlos Bilardo
, Argentine footballer and manager
March 17
Rudolf Nureyev
, Russian-born dancer, choreographer (d.
1993
)
Keith O'Brien
, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Edinburgh (d.
2018
)
March 18
Timo Mäkinen
, Finnish racing driver (d.
2017
)
Shashi Kapoor
, Indian actor, director, and producer (d.
2017
)
March 20
–
Sergei Novikov
, Russian mathematician
March 21
–
Luigi Tenco
, Italian singer-songwriter (d.
1967
)
March 24
Holger Czukay
, German musician (d.
2017
)
David Irving
, English author and Holocaust denier
March 26
Anthony James Leggett
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
Manuel Sanchís Martínez
, Spanish footballer (d.
2017
)
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
Paul Daniels
, English magician (d.
2016
)
Roy Thinnes
, American actor
April 7
Jerry Brown
, American politician and lawyer
Spencer Dryden
, American drummer (d.
2005
)
Freddie Hubbard
, American jazz trumpeter (d.
2008
)
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
Stanley Fish
, American author
Jonathan Tunick
, American composer
April 20
Betty Cuthbert
, Australian athlete (d.
2017
)
Johnny Tillotson
, American singer
April 22
–
Issey Miyake
, Japanese fashion designer (d.
2022
)
April 26
Giovanni Benvenuti
, Italian Olympic boxer
Duane Eddy
, American rock guitarist (d.
2024
)
April 28
–
Madge Sinclair
, Jamaican-American actress (d.
1995
)
April 29
–
Bernie Madoff
, American fraudster and financier (d.
2021
)
April 30
Gary Collins
, American actor and talk show host (d.
2012
)
Juraj Jakubisko
, Slovak film director
Larry Niven
, American author
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
Michael Murphy
, American actor
Jerzy Skolimowski
, Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor
May 8
Imre Földi
, Hungarian weightlifter (d.
2017
)
Jean Giraud
, French artist (d.
2012
)
May 9
–
Charles Simic
, Serbian-American poet
May 10
Manuel Santana
, Spanish tennis player (d.
2021
)
Maxim Shostakovich
, Russian conductor and pianist
Marina Vlady
, French actress
May 12
Luana Anders
, American actress (d.
1996
)
Ayaz Mutallibov
, 1st
President of Azerbaijan
(d.
2022
)
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
Marinella
, Greek singer and actress
Stien Kaiser
, Dutch speed skater (d.
2022
)
May 22
Richard Benjamin
, American actor
Susan Strasberg
, American actress (d.
1999
)
May 24
Prince Buster
, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d.
2016
)
Tommy Chong
, Canadian-American actor
May 26
William Bolcom
, American composer and arranger
Jaki Liebezeit
, German drummer (d.
2017
)
Teresa Stratas
, Canadian operatic soprano
May 28
–
Jerry West
, American basketball player and executive
May 31
Johnny Paycheck
, American country singer-songwriter (d.
2003
)
Peter Yarrow
, American singer and songwriter
June
Princess Désirée
June 1
–
Carlo Caffarra
, Italian cardinal (d.
2017
)
June 2
–
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
, Princess of Sweden
June 5
–
Karin Balzer
, German athlete (d.
2019
)
June 6
–
Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza
June 7
–
Ian St John
, Scottish footballer (d.
2021
)
June 9
–
Charles Wuorinen
, American composer
June 10
Rahul Bajaj
, Indian businessman (d.
2022
)
Violetta Villas
, Polish singer and actress (d.
2011
)
June 15
–
Chus Pereda
, Spanish footballer and manager (d.
2011
)
June 16
Torgny Lindgren
, Swedish writer (d.
2017
)
Joyce Carol Oates
, American novelist
June 24
Lawrence Block
, American writer
Abulfaz Elchibey
, Azerbaijani political figure, 2nd
President of Azerbaijan
(d.
2000
)
June 28
–
Leon Panetta
, 23rd
United States Secretary of Defense
June 30
–
Billy Mills
, American Olympic athlete
July
Brian Dennehy
Diana Rigg
Natalie Wood
Terence Stamp
July 1
–
Hariprasad Chaurasia
, Indian classical flutist
July 2
Marcel Artelesa
, French footballer (d.
2016
)
David Owen
, British politician and physician
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
Liya Akhedzhakova
, Russian actress
Brian Dennehy
, American actor (d.
2020
)
Sanjeev Kumar
, Indian actor (d.
1985
)
July 10
Lee Morgan
, American jazz trumpeter and composer (d.
1972
)
Tura Satana
, Japanese-American actress (d.
2011
)
July 12
–
Wieger Mensonides
, Dutch swimmer
July 14
–
Moshe Safdie
, Israeli-Canadian architect
July 15
–
Enrique Figuerola
, Cuban sprinter
July 18
John Connelly
, English footballer (d.
2012
)
Hampton Fancher
, American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker
Ian Stewart
, Scottish rock musician (
The Rolling Stones
) (d.
1985
)
Paul Verhoeven
, Dutch film director
July 19
–
Jayant Narlikar
, Indian astrophysicist
July 20
Roger Hunt
, English footballer (d.
2021
)
Diana Rigg
, English actress (d.
2020
)
Natalie Wood
, American actress (d.
1981
)
July 21
–
Janet Reno
, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (d.
2016
)
July 22
–
Terence Stamp
, English actor
July 23
Juliet Anderson
, American actress (d.
2010
)
Ronny Cox
, American actor and singer
Götz George
, German actor (d.
2016
)
July 24
José Altafini
, Italian-Brazilian footballer
Eugene J. Martin
, African-American artist (d.
2005
)
July 27
–
Gary Gygax
, American author, game designer (d.
2008
)
July 28
Luis Aragonés
, Spanish professional footballer and coach (d.
2014
)
Alberto Fujimori
,
President of Peru
Robert Hughes
, Australian art critic (d.
2012
)
Chuan Leekpai
, Thai politician, 20th
Prime Minister of Thailand
July 29
–
Peter Jennings
, Canadian journalist (d.
2005
)
July 30
–
Michael Bell
, American actor and activist
August
Leonid Kuchma
Kenny Rogers
Paul Martin
August 1
Paddy Moloney
, Irish musician, composer, and producer (d.
2021
)
Edward Sokoine
, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania (d.
1984
)
August 3
– Sir
Terry Wogan
, Irish-British radio broadcaster, television presenter/personality (d.
2016
)
August 4
Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond
, Zairian politician (d.
2003
)
Hayes Jones
, American athlete
August 6
–
Paul Bartel
, American actor (d.
2000
)
August 7
–
Verna Bloom
, American actress (d.
2019
)
August 8
Otto Rehhagel
, German footballer and manager
Connie Stevens
, American actress, singer and businesswoman
August 9
Michèle Girardon
, French actress (d.
1975
)
Leonid Kuchma
,
President of Ukraine
Rod Laver
, Australian tennis player
Robert Zollitsch
, German cardinal
August 15
Stephen Breyer
,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Maxine Waters
, African-American politician
August 16
–
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny
, 8th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d.
2020
)
August 19
Diana Muldaur
, American actress
Valentin Mankin
, Ukrainian Soviet sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver medalist (d.
2014
)
August 21
Kenny Rogers
, American country singer and songwriter (d.
2020
)
Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino
,
president of Panama
August 25
–
David Canary
, American actor (d.
2015
)
August 26
–
Francine York
, American actress (d.
2017
)
August 28
–
Paul Martin
, 21st
Prime Minister of Canada
August 29
Elliott Gould
, American actor
Hermann Nitsch
, Austrian artist (d.
2022
)
Robert Rubin
, American banker, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
September
Alan Dershowitz
Wim Kok
September 1
Alan Dershowitz
, American lawyer and academic
Per Kirkeby
, Danish artist (d.
2018
)
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
Tom Lester
, American actor and evangelist (d.
2020
)
Romy Schneider
, German actress (d.
1982
)
September 25
Celestino Rocha da Costa
, 2nd Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d.
2010
)
Jonathan Motzfeldt
,
Prime Minister of Greenland
(d.
2010
)
Kim Ji-young
, South Korean actress (d.
2017
)
September 26
–
Andrey Lukanov
, 40th
Prime Minister of Bulgaria
(d.
1996
)
September 28
Huang Ju
, Chinese politician (d.
2007
)
Ben E. King
, American singer-songwriter (d.
2015
)
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
Eddie Cochran
, American rock and roll singer (d.
1960
)
Tereza Kesovija
, Croatian singer
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
, Peruvian entrepreneur and politician, 66th
President of Peru
October 4
–
Kurt Wüthrich
, Swiss chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
October 5
–
Teresa Heinz
, Portuguese-American businesswoman and philanthropist
October 7
Carlos Contreras
, Chilean footballer (d.
2020
)
Ann Jones
, English tennis player
October 8
Bronislovas Lubys
, 5th
Prime Minister of Lithuania
(d.
2011
)
Fred Stolle
, Australian tennis player
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
John Dean
, American attorney
Melba Montgomery
, American country singer
Farah Pahlavi
, Empress of Iran
October 15
–
Fela Kuti
, Nigerian musician, activist (d.
1997
)
October 16
–
Nico
, German-American singer (d.
1988
)
October 17
Evel Knievel
, American motorcycle daredevil (d.
2007
)
Les Murray
, Australian poet (d.
2019
)
October 18
–
Dawn Wells
, American actress (d.
2020
)
October 22
Derek Jacobi
, English actor
Christopher Lloyd
, American actor
October 23
–
John Heinz
, American politician (d.
1991
)
October 25
–
Bob Webster
, American diver
October 28
Bernadette Lafont
, French actress (d.
2013
)
Anne Perry
, English-born novelist (d.
2023
)
October 29
Ralph Bakshi
, Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
, 24th
President of Liberia
October 30
Ed Lauter
, American actor (d.
2013
)
Marina Ratner
, Russian-American mathematician (d.
2017
)
November
Queen Sofía of Spain
Jean Seberg
Ted Turner
November 2
Pat Buchanan
, American conservative political operative, journalist, pundit and one-time presidential candidate
David Lane
, American white nationalist (d.
2007
)
Richard Serra
, American artist (d.
2024
)
Queen Sofía of Spain
November 3
Frank McKinney
, American competition swimmer (d.
1992
)
Terrence McNally
, American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter (d.
2020
)
November 5
Joe Dassin
, French singer (d.
1980
)
Ionatana Ionatana
, 5th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d.
2000
)
César Luis Menotti
, Argentine footballer and coach
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
Ahmad Obeidat
, Prime Minister of Jordan
Norbert Ratsirahonana
, 9th Prime Minister of Madagascar
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
Oscar Robertson
, African-American basketball player
Charles Starkweather
, American spree killer (d.
1959
)
November 26
–
Porter J. Goss
, American politician, Central Intelligence Agency director
November 28
–
Tom Regan
, American philosopher (d.
2017
)
November 30
Jean Eustache
, French filmmaker (d.
1981
)
Margarita Salas
, Spanish biochemist and academic (d.
2019
)
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
Enrico Macias
, Algerian-French singer, songwriter and musician
McCoy Tyner
, American jazz pianist (d.
2020
)
December 13
–
Heino
, German singer
December 15
Bob Foster
, American professional boxer (d.
2015
)
Juan Carlos Wasmosy
, 48th
President of Paraguay
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
Rosalind Cash
, African-American actress (d.
1995
)
Marien Ngouabi
, 3rd
President of Republic of the Congo
(d.
1977
)
1939:
List
January
Sal Mineo
Abdullah Ensour
Sonny Chiba
Alfredo Palacio
January 1
Michèle Mercier
, French actress
Ali Mahdi Muhammad
, Somali entrepreneur, politician and 4th
President of Somalia
(d.
2021
)
January 3
Arik Einstein
, Israeli singer (d.
2013
)
Bobby Hull
, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d.
2023
)
Vincent Siew
, Taiwanese politician, 9th
Vice President of the Republic of China
January 4
–
Veniamin Soldatenko
, Russian athlete (d.
2023
)
January 6
Valeriy Lobanovskyi
, Ukrainian footballer, manager (d.
2002
)
Murray Rose
, Australian swimmer (d.
2012
)
January 9
–
Susannah York
, English actress (d.
2011
)
January 10
David Horowitz
, American writer
Scott McKenzie
, American singer and songwriter (d.
2012
)
Sal Mineo
, American actor (d.
1976
)
Bill Toomey
, American athlete
January 11
–
Anne Heggtveit
, Canadian Canadian skier
January 15
–
Per Ahlmark
, Swedish politician, writer (d.
2018
)
January 17
Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens
(d.
2008
)
Maury Povich
, American talk show host
January 18
–
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka
, Japanese swimmer (d.
2017
)
January 19
–
Phil Everly
, American rock 'n' roll musician (d.
2014
)
January 20
Abdullah Ensour
, Jordanian economist, 75th
Prime Minister of Jordan
Chandra Wickramasinghe
, British astronomer, poet
January 22
Sonny Chiba
, Japanese actor and martial artist (d.
2021
)
Alfredo Palacio
, 42nd
President of Ecuador
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
Claude François
, French singer, composer, songwriter, music producer, drummer and dancer (d.
1978
)
Ekaterina Maximova
, Russian ballerina (d.
2009
)
Joe Sample
, American pianist, keyboardist, and composer (d.
2014
)
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
Barry Mann
, American songwriter
Janet Suzman
, South African actress
February 10
Adrienne Clarkson
, 26th
Governor General of Canada
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka
, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d.
2017
)
February 11
Gerry Goffin
, American lyricist (d.
2014
)
Jane Yolen
, American writer and poet
February 12
Yael Dayan
, Israeli politician and author
Ray Manzarek
, American keyboardist (
The Doors
) (d.
2013
)
February 13
Beate Klarsfeld
, German-born Nazi hunter
Valery Rozhdestvensky
, Soviet cosmonaut (d.
2011
)
February 15
Ole Ellefsæter
, Norwegian cross-country skier
Robert Hansen
, American serial killer (d.
2014
)
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
Peter Revson
, American race car driver (d.
1974
)
Kenzō Takada
, Japanese-born French fashion designer (d.
2020
)
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
Samantha Eggar
, English actress
Chögyam Trungpa
, Buddhist meditation master (d.
1987
)
March 6
–
Kit Bond
, American politician
March 8
Lidiya Skoblikova
, Russian speed-skater
Paride Tumburus
, Italian footballer (d.
2015
)
March 10
–
Lee Soo-sung
, 27th
Prime Minister of South Korea
March 13
–
Neil Sedaka
, American singer-songwriter
March 14
William B. Lenoir
, American astronaut (d.
2010
)
Glauber Rocha
, Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter (d.
1981
)
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
(d.
2024
)
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
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
,
President of Georgia
(d.
1993
)
Volker Schlöndorff
, German film director
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
, German footballer
April
Marvin Gaye
Francis Ford Coppola
Dusty Springfield
Ali Khamenei
April 1
Vitali Davydov
, Soviet ice hockey player
Ali MacGraw
, American model, actress (
Love Story
)
Phil Niekro
, American baseball player (d.
2020
)
April 2
–
Marvin Gaye
, American singer (d.
1984
)
April 4
Alex George
, Australian botanist
Hugh Masekela
, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer (d.
2018
)
Ernie Terrell
, African-American professional boxer (d.
2014
)
April 5
–
David Winters
, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (d.
2019
)
April 6
–
John Sculley
, American businessman, entrepreneur and investor
April 7
Francis Ford Coppola
, American film director
Sir
David Frost
, English television personality (d.
2013
)
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
Seamus Heaney
, Irish writer,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2013
)
Paul Sorvino
, American actor (d.
2022
)
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
Stanisław Dziwisz
, Polish cardinal
Erik Pevernagie
, Belgian painter
João Bernardo Vieira
,
President of Guinea-Bissau
(d.
2009
)
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
Sumio Iijima
, Japanese physicist and inventor
Taomati Iuta
,
Vice President of Kiribati
(d.
2016
)
May 4
Paul Gleason
, American actor (d.
2006
)
Amos Oz
, Israeli author and journalist (d.
2018
)
May 7
José Antonio Abreu
, Venezuelan orchestral conductor, music educator (d.
2018
)
Sidney Altman
, Canadian-born chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2022
)
Ruud Lubbers
, Dutch politician,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1982–94) (d.
2018
)
May 8
–
Paul Drayton
, American Olympic athlete (d.
2010
)
May 9
Ralph Boston
, American athlete (d.
2023
)
Pierre Desproges
, French humorist (d.
1988
)
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
Giovanni Falcone
, Italian judge (d.
1992
)
Peter Grünberg
, German physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2018
)
May 19
Livio Berruti
, Italian athlete
Sonny Fortune
, American jazz musician (d.
2018
)
James Fox
, English actor
Nancy Kwan
, American actress
Dick Scobee
, American astronaut (d.
1986
)
May 20
–
Roman Kartsev
, Russian actor (d.
2018
)
May 21
David Groh
, American actor (d.
2008
)
Heinz Holliger
, Swiss oboist, composer
May 22
–
Paul Winfield
, African-American actor (d.
2004
)
May 23
–
Reinhard Hauff
, German film director
May 25
Dixie Carter
, American actress (d.
2010
)
Sir
Ian McKellen
, English actor
May 27
–
Don Williams
, American musician (d.
2017
)
May 28
Maeve Binchy
, Irish author (d.
2012
)
Tom Thabane
, 5th
Prime Minister of Lesotho
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
Joe Clark
, 16th
Prime Minister of Canada
Margaret Drabble
, English novelist
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
Brigitte Fontaine
, French singer, writer and poet
Michael Gothard
, English actor (d.
1992
)
June 26
–
Osvaldo Hurtado
, 34th
President of Ecuador
June 29
–
Sante Gaiardoni
, Italian cyclist (d.
2023
)
June 30
Tony Hatch
, English composer
José Emilio Pacheco
, Mexican poet and writer (d.
2014
)
July
Mavis Staples
Karel Gott
Elena Obraztsova
John Howard
Peter Bogdanovich
July 1
Kazi Zafar Ahmed
, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d.
2015
)
Karen Black
, American actress (d.
2013
)
July 2
John H. Sununu
, American politician
Mike Castle
, American attorney, politician
July 3
–
Willy Vanden Berghen
, Belgian road bicycle racer
July 4
Abdelmajid Chetali
, Tunisian footballer, manager
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
, 2nd
Prime Minister of Yemen
(d.
2011
)
July 6
Mary Peters
, British athlete
Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi
, sovereign ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah
Jet Harris
, British bassist, singer and songwriter (
The Shadows
) (d.
2011
)
July 7
–
Elena Obraztsova
, Russian opera singer (d.
2015
)
July 8
Likulia Bolongo
, Congolese politician, general and
Prime Minister of Zaire
Abdelhamid Sharaf
, Jordanian ambassador to the United States and Canada, 51st
Prime Minister of Jordan
(d.
1980
)
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
Karel Gott
, Czech singer (d.
2019
)
Sid Haig
, American actor (d.
2019
)
July 15
Abdulhussain Abdulredha
, Kuwaiti actor (d.
2017
)
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
, 113th
Prime Minister of Portugal
, 19th
President of Portugal
July 16
William Bell
, American soul singer, songwriter
Corin Redgrave
, English actor, political activist (d.
2010
)
Lido Vieri
, Italian footballer and manager
July 17
Spencer Davis
, Welsh singer and musician (d.
2020
)
Milva
, Italian singer, actress, and television personality (d.
2021
)
July 18
Dion DiMucci
, American singer, songwriter
Eduard Mudrik
, Soviet Russian footballer of Jewish ethnicity (d.
2017
)
July 21
Helmut Haller
, German footballer (d.
2012
)
John Negroponte
, American diplomat
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
August 1
Terry Kiser
, American actor
Robert James Waller
, American novelist (d.
2017
)
August 2
Ali Mroudjaé
, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (d.
2019
)
Benjamin Barber
, American political theorist, author (d.
2017
)
John W. Snow
, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
Wes Craven
, American film director, writer (d.
2015
)
August 3
–
Jimmie Nicol
, English drummer and business entrepreneur
August 5
Princess Irene of the Netherlands
Carmen Salinas
, Mexican actress and politician (d.
2021
)
August 7
–
Verna Bloom
, American actress (d.
2019
)
August 8
–
Viorica Viscopoleanu
, Romanian athlete
August 9
Odd Børre
, Norwegian pop singer
Bulle Ogier
, French actress
Romano Prodi
, Italian politician, economist and 52nd
Prime Minister of Italy
August 11
–
James Mancham
, Seychellois politician (d.
2017
)
August 12
–
George Hamilton
, American actor
August 16
Seán Brady
, Irish cardinal
Valery Ryumin
, Soviet cosmonaut (d.
2022
)
Carole Shelley
, English actress (d.
2018
)
August 19
Alan Baker
, English mathematician (d.
2018
)
Ginger Baker
, English rock drummer (d.
2019
)
August 20
–
Fernando Poe Jr.
, Filipino actor (d.
2004
)
August 21
Festus Mogae
, 3rd
President of Botswana
Clarence Williams III
, African-American actor (d.
2021
)
August 22
Valerie Harper
, American actress (d.
2019
)
Carl Yastrzemski
, American professional baseball player
August 23
–
Fernando Luján
, Mexican actor (d.
2019
)
August 27
–
Bill Mulliken
, American swimmer (d.
2014
)
August 29
Kang Sok-ju
, North Korean diplomat, politician (d.
2016
)
Joel Schumacher
, American film producer and director (d.
2020
)
August 30
John Peel
, English disc jockey (d.
2004
)
Elizabeth Ashley
, American actress
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
George Lazenby
, Australian actor
Claudette Colvin
, American civil rights activist and nurse
William Devane
, American actor
Clay Regazzoni
, Swiss race car driver (d.
2006
)
John Stewart
, American folk musician (d.
2008
)
Susumu Tonegawa
, Japanese biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
September 6
–
David Allan Coe
, American country singer, songwriter and musician
September 7
S. David Griggs
, American astronaut (d.
1989
)
Stanislav Petrov
, Soviet Air Defence Forces official (d.
2017
)
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
Richard Kiel
, American actor (d.
2014
)
Guntis Ulmanis
, 5th
President of Latvia
September 16
–
Breyten Breytenbach
, South African writer, painter
September 17
Vladimir Menshov
, Russian actor and film director (d.
2021
)
David Souter
,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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
Wayne Henderson
, American trombonist, record producer (d.
2014
)
Jacques Vallée
, French ufologist
September 25
–
Leon Brittan
, British politician (d.
2015
)
September 28
–
Rudolph Walker
, Trinidadian actor
September 29
Larry Linville
, American actor (
M*A*S*H
) (d.
2000
)
Rhodri Morgan
, Welsh politician (d.
2017
)
September 30
Len Cariou
, Canadian actor
Jean-Marie Lehn
, French chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
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
Marie-Claire Blais
, Canadian writer and poet (d.
2021
)
Marie Laforêt
, French-Swiss singer and actress (d.
2019
)
October 6
–
Melvyn Bragg
, English media arts presenter, critic and novelist
October 7
John Hopcroft
, American computer scientist
Clive James
, Australian-born writer, humorist and television personality (d.
2019
)
Harold Kroto
, English organic chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2016
)
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya
, Congolese cardinal (d.
2021
)
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
Amancio
, Spanish footballer (d.
2023
)
Joe Dolan
, Irish entertainer, recording artist, and pop singer (d.
2007
)
October 18
Flavio Cotti
, 80th
President of the Swiss Confederation
(d.
2020
)
Lee Harvey Oswald
, American assassin of President
John F. Kennedy
(d.
1963
)
October 22
Joaquim Chissano
, 2nd
President of Mozambique
George Cohen
, English footballer
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
John Cleese
, English actor
Marino Perani
, Italian footballer and manager (d.
2017
)
October 28
Giulio Angioni
, Italian writer, anthropologist (d.
2017
)
Jane Alexander
, American actress
October 29
–
Malay Roy Choudhury
, Bengali poet, and novelist (d.
2023
)
October 30
Leland H. Hartwell
, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Grace Slick
, American rock singer (
Jefferson Airplane
)
October 31
Ali Farka Touré
, Malian singer (d.
2006
)
Ron Rifkin
, American actor
November
Emil Constantinescu
Tina Turner
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
November 1
–
Barbara Bosson
, American actress (d.
2023
)
November 2
–
Richard Serra
, American sculptor
November 8
Elizabeth Dawn
, British actress (d.
2017
)
Laila Kinnunen
, Finnish singer (d.
2000
)
Henning Christophersen
, Danish politician (d.
2016
)
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
Yaphet Kotto
, African-American actor (d.
2021
)
Thalmus Rasulala
, American actor (d.
1991
)
November 18
Margaret Atwood
, Canadian novelist
Amanda Lear
, French model, singer
John O'Keefe
, American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and professor
Brenda Vaccaro
, American actress
November 19
Emil Constantinescu
, 3rd
President of Romania
Tom Harkin
, American politician, lawyer and author
November 21
R. Budd Dwyer
, American politician (d.
1987
)
Mulayam Singh Yadav
, Indian politician (d.
2022
)
November 23
–
Betty Everett
, African-American soul singer, pianist (d.
2001
)
November 25
–
Shelagh Delaney
, English dramatist (d.
2011
)
November 26
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
, 5th
Prime Minister of Malaysia
Mark Margolis
, American actor (d.
2023
)
Tina Turner
, African-American singer and actress (d.
2023
)
November 27
Dudley Storey
, New Zealand rower (d.
2017
)
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
, 3rd
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(d.
2001
)
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
James Galway
, Irish flautist
Jerry Butler
, African-American singer-songwriter and politician
Fahrudin Jusufi
, Kosovar-Serbian footballer and coach (d.
2019
)
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
Michael Moorcock
, English science fiction writer
Harold E. Varmus
, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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
1940:
List
January
Brian Josephson
John Hurt
James Cromwell
Carlos Slim
January 2
Jim Bakker
, American televangelist, ex-husband of
Tammy Faye
Masahiko Tsugawa
, Japanese actor, director (d.
2018
)
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
, Indian-American mathematician
January 3
–
Thelma Schoonmaker
, Algerian-born American film editor
January 4
Helmut Jahn
, German-American architect (d.
2021
)
Brian Josephson
, Welsh physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
Gao Xingjian
, Chinese-born writer,
Nobel Prize
laureate
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
Kipchoge Keino
, Kenyan athlete
Tabaré Vázquez
, 39th and 41st
President of Uruguay
(d.
2020
)
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni
, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of
Cilicia
(d.
2015
)
January 18
–
Pedro Rodríguez
, Mexican racing driver (d.
1971
)
January 19
–
Paolo Borsellino
, Italian judge and magistrate (d.
1992
)
January 20
Carol Heiss
, American figure skater
Krishnam Raju
, Indian actor and politician (d.
2022
)
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
Vito Acconci
, American artist and architectural designer (d.
2017
)
Joachim Gauck
, German politician, 11th
President of Germany
January 27
James Cromwell
, American actor
Petru Lucinschi
, Moldovan politician, 2nd
President of Moldova
Brian O'Leary
, American scientist, author, and astronaut (d.
2011
)
January 28
–
Carlos Slim
, Mexican businessman
January 29
Katharine Ross
, American actress
Kunimitsu Takahashi
, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver (d.
2022
)
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
Toshihide Maskawa
, Japanese theoretical physicist (d.
2021
)
Tony Tan
, 7th President of Singapore
February 8
–
Ted Koppel
, American journalist
February 9
Brian Bennett
, British drummer, songwriter (
The Shadows
)
J. M. Coetzee
, South African writer,
Nobel Prize
laureate
February 12
–
Richard Lynch
, American actor (d.
2012
)
February 15
–
Hamzah Haz
, Indonesian politician, 9th
Vice President of Indonesia
February 17
Vicente Fernández
, Mexican singer and actor (d.
2021
)
Willi Holdorf
, German Olympic decathlete (d.
2020
)
Chris Newman
, American sound mixer, director
Gene Pitney
, American singer (d.
2006
)
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
Peter Gethin
, British racing driver (d.
2011
)
John Lewis
, African-American politician, civil rights activist (d.
2020
)
February 22
Aracy Balabanian
, Brazilian actress
Judy Cornwell
, English actress
February 23
–
Peter Fonda
, American actor (d.
2019
)
February 24
Pete Duel
, American actor (d.
1971
)
Jimmy Ellis
, African-American professional boxer (d.
2014
)
Denis Law
, Scottish footballer
February 25
Jesús López Cobos
, Spanish-born conductor (d.
2018
)
Ron Santo
, American baseball player (d.
2010
)
February 27
Howard Hesseman
, American actor (d.
2022
)
Bill Hunter
, Australian actor (d.
2011
)
February 28
Mario Andretti
, American race car driver
Joe South
, American singer, songwriter (d.
2012
)
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
Rudi Dutschke
, German radical student leader (d.
1979
)
Viktor Savinykh
, Soviet cosmonaut
Daniel J. Travanti
, American actor
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
Anita Bryant
, American entertainer
Mina
, Italian singer
March 26
James Caan
, American actor (d.
2022
)
Nancy Pelosi
, American politician
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
Barney Frank
, American politician
Patrick Leahy
, American politician
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
John Hagee
, American
televangelist
Herbie Hancock
, African-American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
April 13
J. M. G. Le Clézio
, French writer and professor
Max Mosley
, British motorsport boss (d.
2021
)
José Nápoles
, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (d.
2019
)
April 14
Julie Christie
, English actress
Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein
(d.
2021
)
April 15
Faimalaga Luka
, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d.
2005
)
Robert Walker Jr.
, American actor (d.
2019
)
April 16
– Queen
Margrethe II of Denmark
April 17
–
Padma Sachdev
, Indian poet and novelist (d.
2021
)
April 18
Ira von Fürstenberg
, European socialite and actress
Joseph L. Goldstein
, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Vladimir Vasiliev
, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
April 19
–
Reinhard Bonnke
, German evangelist (d.
2019
)
April 20
James Gammon
, American actor (d.
2010
)
Pilar Miró
, Spanish screenwriter and film director (d.
1997
)
April 22
–
Marie-José Nat
, French actress (d.
2019
)
April 23
–
Danilo Astori
, Uruguayan politician, 15th
Vice President of Uruguay
(d.
2023
)
April 24
Sue Grafton
, American detective novelist (d.
2017
)
Michael Parks
, American actor, singer (d.
2017
)
April 25
–
Al Pacino
, American actor, film director
April 26
–
Giorgio Moroder
, Italian film composer
April 29
–
Peter Diamond
, American economist
April 30
Ermindo Onega
, Argentine footballer (d.
1979
)
Burt Young
, American actor, author and painter (d.
2023
)
May
David Koch
Lance Henriksen
Ricky Nelson
Toni Tennille
May 2
–
Manuel Esquivel
, 2nd
Prime Minister of Belize
(d.
2022
)
May 3
David Koch
, American businessman (d.
2019
)
Conny Plank
, German record producer and musician (d.
1987
)
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
Peter Benchley
, American author (
Jaws
) (d.
2006
)
Ricky Nelson
, American singer (d.
1985
)
Toni Tennille
, American pop singer
May 9
–
James L. Brooks
, American film producer, writer
May 10
Arthur Alexander
, American singer, songwriter (d.
1993
)
Wayne Dyer
, American psychologist and author (d.
2015
)
May 12
–
Norman Whitfield
, American songwriter and producer (d.
2008
)
May 13
Bruce Chatwin
, British author (d.
1989
)
Kōkichi Tsuburaya
, Japanese athlete (d.
1968
)
May 14
–
Tommy Lawrence
, Scottish professional footballer (d.
2018
)
May 15
Lainie Kazan
, American actress, singer
Don Nelson
, American basketball player and coach
May 16
–
Ole Ernst
, Danish actor (d.
2013
)
May 17
–
Alan Kay
, American computer scientist
May 19
Jan Janssen
, Dutch cyclist
Frank Lorenzo
, American businessman
May 20
Stan Mikita
, Slovakian-born Canadian hockey player (d.
2018
)
Sadaharu Oh
, Japanese baseball player
May 21
–
Tony Sheridan
, British singer, songwriter, and musician (d.
2013
)
May 22
–
Michael Sarrazin
, Canadian actor (d.
2011
)
May 24
Moudud Ahmed
, 7th
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
(d.
2021
)
Joseph Brodsky
, Russian-born poet,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1996
)
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
June 1
René Auberjonois
, American actor (d.
2019
)
Kip Thorne
, American gravitational physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
June 2
–
Constantine II of Greece
(d.
2023
)
June 7
–
Tom Jones
, Welsh singer
June 8
–
Nancy Sinatra
, American singer
June 13
–
Bobby Freeman
, American singer-songwriter (d.
2017
)
June 14
–
Jack Bannon
, American actor (d.
2017
)
June 16
Neil Goldschmidt
, American businessman and politician
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
, Chinese-American astronaut
June 17
George Akerlof
, American economist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
Ali Saibou
, 3rd President of Niger (d.
2011
)
June 18
–
Phillip E. Johnson
, American lawyer and author (d.
2019
)
June 20
Eugen Drewermann
, German theologian, activist and priest
John Mahoney
, English-born American actor (d.
2018
)
June 21
Mariette Hartley
, American actress
Michael Ruse
, British-Canadian philosopher
June 22
–
Abbas Kiarostami
, Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer (d.
2016
)
June 23
Adam Faith
, English singer, actor (d.
2003
)
Willie Wallace
, Scottish football player, coach
Wilma Rudolph
, American Olympic athlete (d.
1994
)
Stuart Sutcliffe
, English rock musician, painter (d.
1962
)
June 24
Hope Cooke
, American socialite, Queen Consort of Sikkim
Vittorio Storaro
, Italian cinematographer
June 25
Thomas Köhler
, East German luger
Mary Beth Peil
, American actress and singer
June 28
Karpal Singh
, Malaysian politician, lawyer (d.
2014
)
Muhammad Yunus
, Bangladeshi founder of
Grameen Bank
,
Nobel Prize
laureate
June 30
–
Víctor Erice
, Spanish film director
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
Lamar Alexander
, American politician
Fontella Bass
, African-American soul singer ("
Rescue Me
") (d.
2012
)
Jerzy Buzek
, Polish politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Poland
Mario Zanin
, Italian cyclist
July 5
Arthur Blythe
, American jazz musician and composer (d.
2017
)
Chuck Close
, American painter (d.
2021
)
July 6
Rex Cawley
, American athlete (d.
2022
)
Viktor Kuzkin
, Soviet ice hockey player (d.
2008
)
Nursultan Nazarbayev
, 1st
President of Kazakhstan
Jeannie Seely
, American singer, songwriter
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
James Brolin
, American actor, director
Peter Mutharika
, 5th
President of Malawi
Joe Torre
, American baseball player, manager
July 19
Hanako, Princess Hitachi
Anzor Kavazashvili
, Soviet former football goalkeeper
July 20
–
Tony Allen
, Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter (d.
2020
)
July 21
–
Jim Clyburn
, African-American politician
July 22
Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma
Alex Trebek
, Canadian game show host (
Jeopardy!
) (d.
2020
)
July 24
Stanley Hauerwas
, American theologian
Dan Hedaya
, American actor
July 26
Dobie Gray
, African-American singer-songwriter (
Drift Away
) (d.
2011
)
Jean-Luc Nancy
, French philosopher (d.
2021
)
July 27
Gary Kurtz
, American filmmaker (d.
2018
)
Pina Bausch
, German choreographer (d.
2009
)
Bharati Mukherjee
, Indian-born novelist (d.
2017
)
July 28
–
Philip Proctor
, American actor
July 30
–
Clive Sinclair
, English inventor (d.
2021
)
August
Martin Sheen
Jean-Luc Dehaene
August 3
–
Martin Sheen
, American actor
August 7
–
Jean-Luc Dehaene
,
Prime Minister of Belgium
(d.
2014
)
August 13
–
Dirk Sager
, German journalist (d.
2014
)
August 19
–
Jill St. John
, American actress
August 20
–
Rajendra K. Pachauri
, Indian scientist (d.
2020
)
August 23
–
Thomas A. Steitz
, American biochemist (d.
2018
)
August 25
–
José van Dam
, Belgian bass-baritone
August 26
Don LaFontaine
, American voice actor (d.
2008
)
Michel Micombero
, 1st President of Burundi (d.
1983
)
August 27
–
Sonny Sharrock
, American jazz musician (d.
1994
)
August 28
William Cohen
, 20th
United States Secretary of Defense
Ken Jenkins
, American actor
Roger Pingeon
, French road racing cyclist (d.
2017
)
August 29
Bennie Maupin
, American musician
Wim Ruska
, Dutch wrestler, martial artist (d.
2015
)
August 31
Wilton Felder
, American saxophonist, bassist (d.
2015
)
Larry Hankin
, American actor
Jack Thompson
, Australian actor
September
Raquel Welch
Linda Gray
Óscar Arias
Michel Temer
September 1
–
Annie Ernaux
, French writer
September 3
Pauline Collins
, English actress
Eduardo Galeano
, Uruguayan writer (d.
2015
)
Joseph Warioba
, 5th Prime Minister of Tanzania
September 5
–
Raquel Welch
, American actress (d.
2023
)
September 6
–
Elwyn Berlekamp
, American mathematician (d.
2019
)
September 7
Dario Argento
, Italian filmmaker
Abdurrahman Wahid
, 4th
President of Indonesia
(d.
2009
)
September 10
–
Roy Ayers
, African-American musician, songwriter
September 11
Brian De Palma
, American film director
Nông Đức Mạnh
, Vietnamese politician
September 12
Roger K. Crouch
, American scientist and astronaut
Joachim Frank
, German-born biophysicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
Linda Gray
, American model, actress (
Dallas
)
September 13
–
Óscar Arias
, 2-time
President of Costa Rica
,
Nobel Peace Prize
laureate
September 14
–
Larry Brown
, American basketball player, coach
September 15
Merlin Olsen
, American football player, announcer, and actor (d.
2010
)
Norman Spinrad
, American science fiction author, essayist, and critic
September 17
–
Jan Eliasson
, Swedish diplomat
September 18
–
Frankie Avalon
, American singer, actor
September 19
Bill Medley
, American singer and songwriter
Paul Williams
, American composer, singer, songwriter and actor
September 20
Tarō Asō
, 59th
Prime Minister of Japan
Joe DioGuardi
, American accountant and politician
September 22
–
Anna Karina
, Danish-French actress, director, writer, and singer (d.
2019
)
September 23
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
, Iranian traditional singer (d.
2020
)
Michel Temer
, Brazilian politician, 37th
President of Brazil
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
Barry Corbin
, American actor
Dave DeBusschere
, American professional basketball player and coach (d.
2003
)
October 18
–
Győző Kulcsár
, Hungarian fencer (d.
2018
)
October 19
Sir Michael Gambon
, Irish actor (d.
2023
)
Jerzy Kulej
, Polish boxer (d.
2012
)
October 20
–
Robert Pinsky
, American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator
United States Poet Laureate
October 21
Geoffrey Boycott
, English cricketer
Manfred Mann
, South African rock musician
Julie Parrish
, American actress (d.
2003
)
Marita Petersen
, 8th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d.
2001
)
Osamu Watanabe
, Japanese wrestler
October 23
–
Pelé
, Brazilian footballer (d.
2022
)
October 24
–
Yossi Sarid
, Israeli politician (d.
2015
)
October 25
Bob Knight
, American basketball player and coach (d.
2023
)
Apolo Nsibambi
, Ugandan politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Uganda
(d.
2019
)
October 26
–
Gennadi Strekalov
, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2004
)
October 27
John Gotti
, American gangster (d.
2002
)
Maxine Hong Kingston
, Chinese-American author and professor
Shahnaz Pahlavi
, Iranian princess
October 29
Frida Boccara
, French singer (d.
1996
)
Melba Moore
, African-American actress and singer
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
Jaime Roldós Aguilera
, 33rd
President of Ecuador
(d.
1981
)
Elke Sommer
, German actress
November 11
–
Barbara Boxer
, American politician
November 12
–
Donald Wuerl
, American archbishop
November 13
–
Saul Kripke
, American philosopher and logician (d.
2022
)
November 15
Roberto Cavalli
, Italian designer (d.
2024
)
Sam Waterston
, American actor
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
Richard Marcinko
, American military commander and author (d.
2021
)
Natalia Makarova
, Russian prima ballerina and choreographer
November 22
Alberto Fouilloux
, Chilean footballer (d.
2018
)
Terry Gilliam
, American-born British screenwriter, director, animator, and actor
Andrzej Żuławski
, Polish film director, writer (d.
2016
)
November 25
Joe Gibbs
, American football coach and NASCAR Team Owner
Karl Offmann
, 3rd
President of Mauritius
(d.
2022
)
November 26
–
Gianni De Michelis
, Italian politician (d.
2019
)
November 27
–
Bruce Lee
, Chinese-American martial artist, actor (d.
1973
)
November 29
Denny Doherty
, Canadian musician (d.
2007
)
Chuck Mangione
, American flugelhorn player
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
David Gates
, American singer-songwriter
Donna Mills
, American actress
December 12
Sharad Pawar
, Indian politician
Dionne Warwick
, African-American singer and actress
December 19
–
Phil Ochs
, American
protest singer
(d.
1976
)
December 21
–
Frank Zappa
, American musician, composer, and satirist (d.
1993
)
December 23
Mamnoon Hussain
, 12th President of Pakistan (d.
2021
)
Jorma Kaukonen
, American musician (
Jefferson Airplane
)
December 24
Sharon Farrell
, American actress (d.
2023
)
Anthony Fauci
, American physician and immunologist
Jan Stráský
, 20th
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
(d.
2019
)
December 25
–
Alija Behmen
, Bosnian politician (d.
2018
)
December 26
–
Edward C. Prescott
, American economist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2022
)
December 29
Fred Hansen
, American Olympic athlete
Brigitte Kronauer
, German novelist (d.
2019
)
1967:
List
January
Miklós Kállay
Apollo 1
crew
Eddie Tolan
January 3
Mary Garden
, Scottish-American opera singer (b.
1874
)
Jack Ruby
, American nightclub owner and convicted criminal, best known as the assassin of
Lee Harvey Oswald
(b.
1911
)
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
Evelyn Nesbit
, American actress and model (b.
1884
)
Barney Ross
, American boxer (b.
1909
)
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
Crew of
Apollo 1
(launch pad fire):
Ed White
, American astronaut (b.
1930
)
Gus Grissom
, American astronaut (b.
1926
)
Roger Chaffee
, American astronaut (b.
1935
)
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
, British politician, lawyer, and judge (b.
1900
)
Alphonse Juin
, Marshal of France (b.
1888
)
Luigi Tenco
, Italian singer-songwriter (b.
1938
)
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
Martine Carol
, French actress (b.
1920
)
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
,
United States Secretary of the Treasury
during
World War II
(b.
1891
)
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
March 2
Gordon Harker
, English actor (b.
1885
)
José Martínez Ruiz, 'Azorín'
, Spanish writer (b.
1873
)
March 5
Mischa Auer
, Russian-born actor (b.
1905
)
Mohammad Mosaddegh
, Iranian politician, 35th
Prime Minister of Iran
(b.
1882
)
Georges Vanier
, Canadian Governor General (b.
1888
)
March 6
Nelson Eddy
, American singer and actor (b.
1901
)
Zoltán Kodály
, Hungarian composer (b.
1882
)
March 7
–
Alice B. Toklas
, American personality (b.
1877
)
March 11
–
Geraldine Farrar
, American soprano (b.
1882
)
March 23
–
Pete Johnson
, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, songwriter (b.
1904
)
March 27
–
Jaroslav Heyrovský
, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1890
)
March 30
–
Jean Toomer
, American writer (b.
1894
)
March 31
Don Alvarado
, American actor (b.
1904
)
Rodion Malinovsky
, Soviet military commander and Minister of Defence (b.
1898
)
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
May 6
–
Zhou Zuoren
, Chinese writer (b.
1885
)
May 7
–
Judith Evelyn
, American actress (b.
1909
)
May 8
Laverne Andrews
, American singer (b.
1911
)
Elmer Rice
, American playwright (b.
1892
)
May 10
–
Lorenzo Bandini
, Italian Formula One driver (b.
1935
)
May 12
–
John Masefield
, English poet and novelist (b.
1878
)
May 15
–
Edward Hopper
, American painter (b.
1882
)
May 18
–
Andy Clyde
, Scottish actor (b.
1892
)
May 21
Géza Lakatos
, Hungarian general and politician, 36th
Prime Minister of Hungary
(b.
1890
)
Rexhep Mitrovica
, Albanian politician, 18th
Prime Minister of Albania
(b.
1888
)
May 22
Langston Hughes
, American writer, novelist, playwright, and columnist (b.
1902
)
Josip Plemelj
, Slovene mathematician (b.
1873
)
May 27
Tilly Edinger
, German-born American scientist, founder of
paleoneurology
(b.
1897
)
Johannes Itten
, Swiss painter (b.
1888
)
May 29
–
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
, Austrian film director (b.
1885
)
May 30
–
Claude Rains
, British actor (b.
1889
)
May 31
–
Billy Strayhorn
, American composer and pianist (b.
1915
)
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
Gerald Patterson
, Australian tennis champion (b.
1895
)
Edward Ellington
, British military officer; Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b.
1877
)
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
Primo Carnera
, Italian boxer (b.
1906
)
Jayne Mansfield
, American actress (b.
1933
)
July
Vivien Leigh
John Coltrane
July 1
–
Gerhard Ritter
, German historian (b.
1888
)
July 8
Fatima Jinnah
, Pakistan's "Mother of the Nation" (b.
1893
)
Vivien Leigh
, English actress (b.
1913
)
July 9
Eugen Fischer
, German professor of medicine, anthropology and eugenics (b.
1874
)
July 13
–
Tommy Lucchese
, Italian-American gangster (b.
1899
)
July 14
–
Tudor Arghezi
, Romanian writer (b.
1880
)
July 17
Cyril Ring
, American film actor (b.
1892
)
John Coltrane
, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1926
)
July 18
–
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
, 26th
President of Brazil
(plane crash) (b.
1897
)
July 20
–
Lewis H. Brereton
, American aviation pioneer and air force general (b.
1890
)
July 21
Jimmie Foxx
, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Athletics
) and member of the
MLB Hall of Fame
(b.
1907
)
Albert Lutuli
, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1898
)
Basil Rathbone
, British actor (b.
1892
)
July 22
–
Carl Sandburg
, American poet (b.
1878
)
August
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Stanley Bruce
Brian Epstein
August 1
Richard Kuhn
, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1900
)
Adrien Arcand
, Canadian politician (b.
1899
)
August 9
Joe Orton
, English playwright (b.
1933
)
Anton Walbrook
, Austrian actor (b.
1896
)
August 13
–
Jane Darwell
, American actress (b.
1879
)
August 15
René Magritte
, Belgian painter (b.
1898
)
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
, 50th & 54th
President of Peru
(b.
1889
)
August 19
Isaac Deutscher
, British Marxist historian (b.
1907
)
Hugo Gernsback
, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b.
1884
)
August 22
–
Gregory Goodwin Pincus
, American biologist and researcher (b.
1903
)
August 23
–
Nathaniel Cartmell
, American Olympic athlete (b.
1883
)
August 24
–
Henry J. Kaiser
, American industrialist (b.
1882
)
August 25
Stanley Bruce
, 8th
Prime Minister of Australia
(b.
1883
)
Paul Muni
, American actor (b.
1895
)
George Lincoln Rockwell
, American Nazi Party leader (b.
1918
)
August 27
–
Brian Epstein
, English band manager (
The Beatles
) (b.
1934
)
August 30
Samuel Mosberg
, American boxer, Olympic champion (b.
1896
)
Ad Reinhardt
, American painter (b.
1913
)
August 31
Ilya Ehrenburg
, Russian writer (b.
1891
)
Mikhail Kovalyov
, Soviet general (b.
1897
)
September
James Dunn
September 1
James Dunn
, American actor (b.
1901
)
Ilse Koch
, Nazi German war criminal (b.
1906
)
Siegfried Sassoon
, British poet (b.
1886
)
September 3
–
Francis Ouimet
, American professional golfer (b.
1893
)
September 8
–
Juliusz Rómmel
, Polish general (b.
1881
)
September 12
–
Vladimir Bartol
, Slovene author (b.
1903
)
September 13
–
Varian Fry
, American journalist (b.
1907
)
September 18
–
John Cockcroft
, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897
)
September 27
– Prince
Felix Yusupov
, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b.
1887
)
September 29
–
Carson McCullers
, American writer (b.
1917
)
October
Che Guevara
Shigeru Yoshida
October 3
Woody Guthrie
, American folk musician (b.
1911
)
Sir
Malcolm Sargent
, English conductor (b.
1895
)
Pinto Colvig
, American actor, newspaper cartoonist, and circus performer (b.
1892
)
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
Gordon Allport
, American psychologist (b.
1897
)
Che Guevara
, Argentine communist revolutionary (b.
1928
)
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897
)
Joseph Pilates
, German physical culturist and developer of
Pilates
(b.
1883
)
Edith Storey
, American actress (b.
1892
)
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
December 4
Daniel Jones
, British phonetician (b.
1881
)
Bert Lahr
, American actor (b.
1895
)
December 8
–
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
, American astronaut (b.
1935
)
December 10
–
Otis Redding
, American singer (b.
1941
)
December 11
Howard Freeman
, American actor (b.
1899
)
Victor de Sabata
, Italian conductor and composer (b.
1892
)
December 17
–
Harold Holt
, 17th
Prime Minister of Australia
(body never found) (b.
1908
)
December 21
Stuart Erwin
, American actor (b.
1903
)
Ejnar Hertzsprung
, Danish chemist and astronomer (b.
1873
)
December 27
–
Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer
, Spanish mathematician (b.
1912
)
December 29
–
Paul Whiteman
, American bandleader (b.
1890
)
December 30
–
Vincent Massey
, former Canadian Governor General (b.
1887
)
1975:
List
January
Antonín Novotný
January 5
–
Gottlob Berger
, German Nazi senior official (b.
1896
)
January 9
–
Pierre Fresnay
, French actor (b.
1897
)
January 14
–
Georgi Traykov
, former head of
State of Bulgaria
as Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (b.
1898
)
January 17
–
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
, 19th
President of Colombia
(b.
1900
)
January 19
–
Thomas Hart Benton
, American artist (b.
1889
)
January 23
–
Prince Karl Franz of Prussia
(b.
1916
)
January 24
Larry Fine
, American actor and comedian (b.
1902
)
Erich Kempka
, German Chauffeur (b.
1910
)
January 27
–
Bill Walsh
, American film producer and writer (b.
1913
)
January 28
–
Antonín Novotný
, Czechoslovak Communist leader and 7th
President of Czechoslovakia
(b.
1904
)
February
Julian Huxley
Chivu Stoica
February 1
–
Richard Wattis
, English actor (b.
1912
)
February 3
William D. Coolidge
, American physicist and engineer (b.
1873
)
Umm Kulthum
, Egyptian actress and singer (b.
1898
)
February 4
–
Louis Jordan
, American musician (b.
1908
)
February 8
Robert Robinson
, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1886
)
Jan Mukařovský
, Czech literary, linguistic and aesthetic theorist. (b.
1891
)
February 10
–
Dave Alexander
, American musician (b.
1947
)
February 11
–
Richard Ratsimandrava
, Malagasy soldier and statesman (b.
1931
)
February 12
–
Carl Lutz
, Swiss diplomat and humanitarian (b.
1895
)
February 14
Julian Huxley
, British biologist (b.
1887
)
P. G. Wodehouse
, English writer (b.
1881
)
February 16
–
Morgan Taylor
, American Olympic athlete (b.
1903
)
February 17
–
George Marshall
, American film director, producer and screenwriter (b.
1891
)
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 22
–
Lionel Tertis
, English violist (b.
1876
)
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 2
–
Madeleine Vionnet
, French fashion designer (b.
1876
)
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
Joseph Bech
,
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
(b.
1887
)
George Stevens
, American director, producer and cinematographer (b.
1904
)
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
King
Faisal of Saudi Arabia
(b.
1906
)
Michèle Girardon
, French actress (b.
1938
)
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
Chiang Kai-shek
, Chinese nationalist general and politician, 1st
President of the Republic of China
(b.
1887
)
Harold Osborn
, American Olympic athlete (b.
1899
)
Victor Marijnen
, Dutch politician and jurist, 40th
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(b.
1917
)
April 10
Walker Evans
, American photographer (b.
1903
)
Marjorie Main
, American actress (b.
1890
)
April 12
–
Josephine Baker
, France entertainer, activist (b.
1906
)
April 13
Larry Parks
, American actor (b.
1914
)
François Tombalbaye
, 1st
President of Chad
(b.
1918
)
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
May 4
–
Moe Howard
, American actor and comedian (b.
1897
)
May 8
–
Avery Brundage
, American administrator, 5th
President of the International Olympic Committee
(b.
1887
)
May 9
–
Philip Dorn
, Dutch actor (b.
1901
)
May 18
Leroy Anderson
, American composer (b.
1908
)
Aníbal Troilo
, Argentine tango musician (b.
1914
)
May 20
–
Dame Barbara Hepworth
, English sculptor and artist (b.
1903
)
May 22
–
Torben Meyer
, Danish actor (b.
1884
)
May 23
–
Moms Mabley
, African-American comedian (b.
1894
)
May 28
Ezzard Charles
, American boxer, former World Heavyweight Champion (b.
1921
)
Roy Roberts
, American actor (b.
1906
)
May 30
Steve Prefontaine
, American distance runner (b.
1951
)
Michel Simon
, Swiss actor (b.
1895
)
June
Eisaku Satō
June 3
Eisaku Satō
, 39th
Prime Minister of Japan
, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1901
)
Ozzie Nelson
, American actor, director and producer (b.
1906
)
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
Otto Skorzeny
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 6
–
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera
, Spanish prince, military aviator (b.
1886
)
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
Mark Donohue
, American race car driver (b.
1937
)
Frank Shields
, American tennis player (b.
1909
)
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
Sir
George Paget Thomson
Saint-John Perse
September 5
–
Alice Catherine Evans
, American microbiologist (b.
1881
)
September 9
Minta Durfee
, American actress (b.
1889
)
Ethel Griffies
, British actress (b.
1878
)
John McGiver
, American actor (b.
1913
)
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
Doria Shafik
, Egyptian feminist, poet, writer and editor (b.
1908
)
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
Peregrino Anselmo
, Uruguyan football player (b.
1902
)
Rex Stout
, American author (b.
1886
)
October 28
Georges Carpentier
, French boxer (b.
1894
)
Oliver Nelson
, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (b.
1932
)
October 30
–
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
, German physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1887
)
October 31
–
Joseph Calleia
, Maltese-American actor (b.
1897
)
November
Francisco Franco
November 1
–
C. S. Wright
, Canadian explorer (b.
1887
)
November 2
–
Pier Paolo Pasolini
, Italian film director (b.
1922
)
November 4
Francis Dvornik
, Czech historian (b.
1893
)
Sheila Ryan
, American actress (b.
1921
)
November 5
Edward Tatum
, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1909
)
Lionel Trilling
, American literary critic (b.
1905
)
November 6
Vicente Feola
, Brazilian football manager and coach (b.
1909
)
Ernst Hanfstaengl
, German-born American businessman and politician (b.
1887
)
Annette Kellermann
, Australian swimmer and actress (b.
1887
)
November 13
–
R. C. Sherriff
, English writer (b.
1896
)
November 17
–
Kay Johnson
, American actress (b.
1904
)
November 20
–
Francisco Franco
, Spanish dictator (b.
1892
)
November 29
–
Graham Hill
, English race car driver (b.
1929
)
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
Noble Sissle
, American jazz composer (b.
1889
)
Hound Dog Taylor
, American blues guitarist and singer (b.
1915
)
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:
List
John Updike
Ingemar Johansson
January 1
Nizar Rayan
, Palestinian military and political leader (b.
1959
)
Johannes Mario Simmel
, Austrian writer (b.
1924
)
Helen Suzman
, South African activist and politician (b.
1917
)
January 3
–
Pat Hingle
, American actor (b.
1924
)
January 8
–
Don Galloway
, American actor (b.
1937
)
January 12
Claude Berri
, French film director (b.
1934
)
Arne Næss
, Norwegian philosopher (b.
1912
)
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
John Updike
, American writer (b.
1932
)
R. Venkataraman
, 8th President of India (b.
1910
)
January 30
–
Ingemar Johansson
, Swedish boxer (b.
1932
)
February
James Whitmore
February 6
Philip Carey
, American actor (b.
1925
)
James Whitmore
, American actor (b.
1921
)
February 9
–
Eluana Englaro
, Italian patient in right-to-die case (b.
1970
)
February 12
–
Giacomo Bulgarelli
, Italian footballer (b.
1940
)
February 18
–
Kamila Skolimowska
, Polish hammer thrower (b.
1982
)
February 25
–
Philip José Farmer
, American writer (b.
1918
)
February 26
–
Wendy Richard
, English actress (b.
1943
)
February 27
–
Manea Mănescu
, 50th Prime Minister of Romania (b.
1916
)
February 28
–
Paul Harvey
, American radio broadcaster (b.
1918
)
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
Betsy Blair
, American actress (b.
1923
)
James Purdy
, American novelist, poet and playwright (b.
1914
)
Test
, Canadian-American professional wrestler and actor (b.
1975
)
March 14
Alain Bashung
, French singer, songwriter and actor (b.
1947
)
Edith Lucie Bongo
, First Lady of Gabon (b.
1964
)
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
Yukio Endo
, Japanese gymnast (b.
1937
)
Dan Seals
, American country music singer-songwriter (b.
1948
)
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
April 12
Marilyn Chambers
, American pornographic actress (b.
1952
)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
, American social theorist (b.
1950
)
April 14
–
Maurice Druon
, French novelist (b.
1918
)
April 19
–
J. G. Ballard
, English novelist (b.
1930
)
April 22
Ken Annakin
, English film director (b.
1914
)
Jack Cardiff
, English cinematographer (b.
1914
)
April 25
–
Bea Arthur
, American actress and singer (b.
1922
)
April 26
–
Pupuke Robati
, 4th Prime Minister of Cook Islands (b.
1925
)
April 28
Vern Gosdin
, American country music singer (b.
1934
)
Ekaterina Maximova
, Russian ballerina (b.
1939
)
May
Dom DeLuise
Roh Moo-hyun
May 2
Augusto Boal
, Brazilian theatre director (b.
1931
)
Jack Kemp
, American politician and football player (b.
1935
)
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
Wayne Allwine
, American voice actor (b.
1947
)
Velupillai Prabhakaran
, Sri Lankan militant (b.
1954
)
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
Luís Cabral
, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (b.
1931
)
Ephraim Katzir
, 4th President of Israel (b.
1916
)
Gaafar Nimeiry
, 4th President of the Sudan (b.
1930
)
May 31
Millvina Dean
, British civil servant, and cartographer (b.
1912
)
Kamala Surayya
, Indian poet (b.
1934
)
June
David Carradine
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
June 1
Silvio Barbato
, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (b.
1959
)
Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu
, Turkish harpist and university lecturer for piano and harp (b.
1972
)
Prince Pedro Luiz of Orléans-Braganza
, heir to the line of succession in Brazil (b.
1983
)
June 2
–
David Eddings
, American author (b.
1931
)
June 3
David Carradine
, American actor (b.
1936
)
Koko Taylor
, American musician (b.
1928
)
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
Giovanni Arrighi
, Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst (b.
1937
)
Hortensia Bussi
, 28th
First Lady of Chile
(b.
1914
)
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
Farrah Fawcett
, American actress (b.
1947
)
Michael Jackson
, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b.
1958
)
June 27
–
Gale Storm
, American actress (b.
1922
)
June 28
–
Billy Mays
, American pitchman and television host (b.
1958
)
June 30
Pina Bausch
, German choreographer (b.
1940
)
Harve Presnell
, American actor and singer (b.
1933
)
Shi Pei Pu
, Chinese opera singer (b.
1938
)
July
Karl Malden
Walter Cronkite
Bobby Robson
July 1
Alexis Argüello
, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b.
1952
)
Marwa El-Sherbini
, Egyptian pharmacist (b.
1978
)
Karl Malden
, American actor (b.
1912
)
July 3
–
Jorge Enrique Adoum
, Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat (b.
1926
)
July 4
Brenda Joyce
, American actress (b.
1917
)
Allen Klein
, American businessman (b.
1931
)
Steve McNair
, American football player (b.
1973
)
July 6
Vasily Aksyonov
, Russian novelist (b.
1932
)
Robert McNamara
, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b.
1916
)
July 13
–
Amin al-Hafez
, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b.
1926
)
July 15
–
Natalya Estemirova
, Russian human rights activist (b.
1958
)
July 17
Meir Amit
, Israeli general and politician (b.
1921
)
Walter Cronkite
, American newscaster (b.
1916
)
Leszek Kołakowski
, Polish philosopher (b.
1927
)
July 18
Henry Allingham
, English war veteran (b.
1896
)
Yasmine Belmadi
, French actor (b.
1976
)
Ricardo Londoño
, Colombian racing driver (b.
1949
)
July 19
Frank McCourt
, Irish-American author (b.
1930
)
Henry Surtees
, British racing driver (b.
1991
)
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
John Hughes
, American film director and writer (b.
1950
)
Savka Dabčević-Kučar
, Prime Minister of Croatia (b.
1923
)
Willy DeVille
, American singer-songwriter (b.
1950
)
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
Juan Almeida
, Cuban revolutionary and politician (b.
1927
)
Jim Carroll
, American author, poet and musician (b.
1949
)
Yoshito Usui
, Japanese manga artist (b.
1958
)
September 12
Norman Borlaug
, American Nobel agronomist (b.
1914
)
Jack Kramer
, American tennis player and promoter (b.
1921
)
September 13
–
Paul Burke
, American actor (b.
1926
)
September 14
Keith Floyd
, British cook and restaurateur (b.
1943
)
Henry Gibson
, American actor and songwriter (b.
1935
)
Patrick Swayze
, American actor and dancer (b.
1952
)
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
Marek Edelman
, Polish political and social activist (b.
1922
)
Rolf Rüssmann
, German footballer (b.
1950
)
October 4
Shōichi Nakagawa
, Japanese politician (b.
1953
)
Günther Rall
, German fighter pilot (b.
1918
)
Mercedes Sosa
, Argentine singer (b.
1935
)
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
Robert Enke
, German footballer (b.
1977
)
John Allen Muhammad
, African-American spree killer (b.
1960
)
November 15
Pierre Harmel
, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (b.
1911
)
Pavle
, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b.
1914
)
Jocelyn Quivrin
, French actor (b.
1979
)
November 16
Antonio de Nigris
, Mexican footballer (b.
1978
)
Edward Woodward
, English actor and singer (b.
1930
)
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
Paul Naschy
, Spanish actor (b.
1934
)
Milorad Pavić
, Serbian writer (b.
1929
)
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
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
, Russian actor (b.
1928
)
Umaga
, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b.
1973
)
December 5
Alfred Hrdlicka
, Austrian artist (b.
1928
)
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
, German politician (b.
1926
)
December 9
Gene Barry
, American actor (b.
1919
)
Rodrigo Carazo Odio
, 38th President of Costa Rica (b.
1926
)
December 12
Val Avery
, American actor (b.
1924
)
Klavdiya Boyarskikh
, Soviet cross-country skier (b.
1939
)
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
Roy E. Disney
, American businessman (b.
1930
)
Yegor Gaidar
, Russian politician (b.
1956
)
December 17
Amin al-Hafiz
, President and Prime Minister of Syria (b.
1921
)
Alaina Reed Hall
, American singer and actress (b.
1946
)
Jennifer Jones
, American actress (b.
1919
)
Michel Leblond
, French footballer (b.
1932
)
Dan O'Bannon
, American screenwriter (b.
1946
)
December 19
Hussein-Ali Montazeri
, Iranian scholar and human rights activist (b.
1922
)
Kim Peek
, American savant (b.
1951
)
December 20
Brittany Murphy
, American actress (b.
1977
)
Arnold Stang
, American actor and comedian (b.
1918
)
December 21
–
Edwin G. Krebs
, American Nobel biologist (b.
1918
)
December 23
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme
, Tibetan politician (b.
1910
)
Edward Schillebeeckx
, Belgian theologian (b.
1914
)
December 24
–
Rafael Caldera
, 54th and 60th President of Venezuela (b.
1916
)
December 25
–
Vic Chesnutt
, American singer-songwriter (b.
1964
)
December 26
Dennis Brutus
, South African activist, educator, journalist and poet (b.
1924
)
Yves Rocher
, French businessman (b.
1930
)
Jacques Sylla
, 12th Prime Minister of Madagascar (b.
1946
)
December 27
–
Takashi Takabayashi
, Japanese footballer (b.
1931
)
December 28
–
The Rev
, American musician (b.
1981
)
December 30
Rowland S. Howard
, Australian musician (b.
1959
)
Peter Shirayanagi
, Japanese cardinal (b.
1928
)
Abdurrahman Wahid
, 4th President of Indonesia (b.
1940
)
December 31
–
Rashidi Kawawa
, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (b.
1924
)
2014:
List
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
Eusébio
, Portuguese footballer (b.
1942
)
Carmen Zapata
, American actress (b.
1927
)
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
Amiri Baraka
, American poet (b.
1934
)
Lorella De Luca
, Italian actress (b.
1940
)
Dale T. Mortensen
, American Nobel economist (b.
1939
)
January 10
–
Zbigniew Messner
, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b.
1929
)
January 11
Vugar Gashimov
, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (b.
1986
)
Ariel Sharon
, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (b.
1928
)
January 13
–
Anjali Devi
, Indian actress (b.
1927
)
January 14
Juan Gelman
, Argentine poet (b.
1930
)
Mae Young
, American professional wrestler (b.
1923
)
January 15
–
Roger Lloyd-Pack
, English actor (b.
1944
)
January 16
Russell Johnson
, American actor (b.
1924
)
Hiroo Onoda
, Japanese army officer (b.
1922
)
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
Abdirizak Haji Hussein
, Somali diplomat and politician, 4th
Prime Minister of Somalia
(b.
1924
)
Miklós Jancsó
, Hungarian film director (b.
1921
)
February
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shirley Temple
Sid Caesar
February 1
Luis Aragonés
, Spanish football player and coach (b.
1938
)
Maximilian Schell
, Austrian-Swiss actor (b.
1930
)
February 2
Gerd Albrecht
, German conductor (b.
1935
)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
, American actor (b.
1967
)
February 3
Louise Brough
, American tennis player (b.
1923
)
Richard Bull
, American actor (b.
1924
)
Joan Mondale
, American arts advocate (b.
1930
)
February 4
–
Wu Ma
, Chinese actor and director (b.
1942
)
February 5
Robert A. Dahl
, American political scientist and educator (b.
1915
)
Richard Hayman
, American musician and conductor (b.
1920
)
February 6
–
Ralph Kiner
, American baseball player and broadcaster (b.
1922
)
February 8
–
Maicon Pereira de Oliveira
, Brazilian footballer (b.
1988
)
February 10
Stuart Hall
, Jamaican-British sociologist (b.
1932
)
Shirley Temple
, American actress, dancer, and diplomat (b.
1928
)
February 11
–
Alice Babs
, Swedish singer (b.
1924
)
February 12
–
Sid Caesar
, American actor (b.
1922
)
February 13
Richard Møller Nielsen
, Danish football player and coach (b.
1937
)
Ralph Waite
, American actor (b.
1928
)
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
Robert Ashley
, American composer (b.
1930
)
William R. Pogue
, American astronaut (b.
1930
)
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
David Brenner
, American comedian (b.
1936
)
Clarissa Dickson Wright
, English chef and television personality (b.
1947
)
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
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
, 122nd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch (b.
1933
)
James Rebhorn
, American actor (b.
1948
)
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
The Ultimate Warrior
, American professional wrestler (b.
1959
)
Karlheinz Deschner
, German activist and writer (b.
1924
)
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
Gabriel García Márquez
, Colombian Nobel writer (b.
1927
)
Raul Bragança Neto
, 8th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b.
1946
)
April 18
–
Ramon Malla Call
, 63rd Co-Prince of Andorra (b.
1922
)
April 20
–
Rubin Carter
, American boxer (b.
1937
)
April 24
Hans Hollein
, Austrian architect (b.
1934
)
Tadeusz Różewicz
, Polish poet and playwright (b.
1921
)
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
May 2
–
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
, American actor (b.
1918
)
May 3
–
Gary Becker
, American Nobel economist (b.
1930
)
May 4
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b.
1948
)
Tatiana Samoilova
, Russian actress (b.
1934
)
May 6
Jimmy Ellis
, American boxer (b.
1940
)
Farley Mowat
, Canadian author (b.
1921
)
May 11
–
Reg Gasnier
, Australian rugby league player (b.
1939
)
May 12
Marco Cé
, Italian cardinal (b.
1925
)
H. R. Giger
, Swiss artist (b.
1940
)
May 15
–
Jean-Luc Dehaene
, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b.
1940
)
May 17
–
Gerald Edelman
, American Nobel biologist (b.
1929
)
May 18
Dobrica Ćosić
, Serbian writer and politician, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b.
1921
)
Wubbo Ockels
, Dutch astronaut and physicist (b.
1946
)
Gordon Willis
, American cinematographer (b.
1931
)
May 19
–
Jack Brabham
, Australian race car driver (b.
1926
)
May 21
Jaime Lusinchi
, President of Venezuela (b.
1924
)
Alireza Soleimani
, Iranian heavyweight freestyle wrestler (b.
1956
)
May 25
Wojciech Jaruzelski
,
Communist
leader of Poland (b.
1923
)
Toaripi Lauti
, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b.
1928
)
May 28
Maya Angelou
, American poet and author (b.
1928
)
Malcolm Glazer
, American businessman (b.
1928
)
May 29
–
Karlheinz Böhm
, Austrian actor (b.
1928
)
May 31
Marinho Chagas
, Brazilian footballer (b.
1952
)
Martha Hyer
, American actress (b.
1924
)
June
Casey Kasem
Ramón José Velásquez
Ana María Matute
June 1
Ann B. Davis
, American actress (b.
1926
)
Valentin Mankin
, Ukrainian sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver medalist (b.
1938
)
June 2
Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy
, Indian cardinal (b.
1924
)
Alexander Shulgin
, American pharmacologist and chemist (b.
1925
)
June 7
–
Fernandão
, Brazilian footballer and manager (b.
1978
)
June 9
Bernard Agré
, Ivorian cardinal (b.
1926
)
Rik Mayall
, British comedian, writer and actor (b.
1958
)
June 11
Ruby Dee
, American actress, poet, playwright and civil rights activist (b.
1922
)
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
, Spanish conductor and composer (b.
1933
)
June 13
–
Gyula Grosics
, Hungarian footballer and manager (b.
1926
)
June 15
Casey Kasem
, American radio host and voice actor (b.
1932
)
Daniel Keyes
, American author (b.
1927
)
June 16
Cándido Muatetema Rivas
, 4th Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b.
1960
)
Tony Gwynn
, American baseball player (b.
1960
)
June 18
Stephanie Kwolek
, American chemist (b.
1923
)
Horace Silver
, American jazz pianist and composer (b.
1928
)
June 24
Eli Wallach
, American actor (b.
1915
)
Ramón José Velásquez
, Venezuelan historian, journalist and politician (b.
1916
)
June 25
–
Ana María Matute
, Spanish author (b.
1925
)
June 26
–
Howard Baker
, American politician and diplomat (b.
1925
)
June 27
Leslie Manigat
, 43rd President of Haiti (b.
1930
)
Rachid Solh
, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b.
1926
)
Bobby Womack
, American singer-songwriter (b.
1944
)
June 28
–
Meshach Taylor
, American actor (b.
1947
)
June 30
Paul Mazursky
, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b.
1930
)
Željko Šturanović
, Prime Minister of Montenegro (b.
1960
)
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
Alfredo Di Stéfano
, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b.
1926
)
Dick Jones
, American actor and singer (b.
1927
)
Eduard Shevardnadze
, 2nd President of Georgia (b.
1928
)
July 10
–
Zohra Sehgal
, Indian actress and dancer (b.
1912
)
July 11
Charlie Haden
, American jazz bassist (b.
1937
)
Tommy Ramone
, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b.
1949
)
John Seigenthaler
, American journalist (b.
1927
)
July 13
Lorin Maazel
, French-American conductor and violinist (b.
1930
)
Nadine Gordimer
, South African Nobel writer (b.
1923
)
July 14
–
Alice Coachman
, American athlete (b.
1923
)
July 16
–
Johnny Winter
, American singer and guitarist (b.
1944
)
July 17
Liam Davison
, Australian author (b.
1957
)
Henry Hartsfield
, American colonel and astronaut (b.
1933
)
Joep Lange
, former president of the International AIDS Society (b.
1954
)
Elaine Stritch
, American actress and singer (b.
1925
)
Willem Witteveen
, Dutch senator (b.
1952
)
July 19
David Easton
, Canadian-American political scientist (b.
1917
)
James Garner
, American actor (b.
1928
)
Skye McCole Bartusiak
, American actress (b.
1992
)
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
Menahem Golan
, Israeli filmmaker (b.
1929
)
Peter Sculthorpe
, Australian composer (b.
1929
)
August 9
Andriy Bal
, Ukrainian football player and coach (b.
1958
)
Ed Nelson
, American actor (b.
1928
)
August 11
Vladimir Beara
, Yugoslav football player and manager (b.
1928
)
Pierre Ryckmans
, Belgian diplomat and author (b.
1935
)
Robin Williams
, American stand-up comedian and actor (b.
1951
)
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
B. K. S. Iyengar
, Indian yoga teacher and author (b.
1918
)
Edmund Szoka
, American cardinal (b.
1927
)
August 21
Steven R. Nagel
, American astronaut (b.
1946
)
Albert Reynolds
, Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) (b.
1932
)
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
)
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citation needed
]
September 1
–
Gottfried John
, German actor (b.
1942
)
September 4
Donatas Banionis
, Lithuanian actor (b.
1924
)
Joan Rivers
, American writer, comedian, actress, and television host (b.
1933
)
Gustavo Cerati
, Argentinian singer (b.
1959
)
September 5
Simone Battle
, American actress and singer (b.
1989
)
Wolfhart Pannenberg
, German theologian (b.
1928
)
September 6
–
Kira Zvorykina
, Belarusian chess player (b.
1919
)
September 7
–
Kwon Ri-se
, South Korean singer (b.
1991
)
September 8
Magda Olivero
, Italian soprano (b.
1910
)
Gerald Wilson
, American trumpet player and composer (b.
1918
)
September 9
–
Bob Suter
, American ice hockey player (b.
1957
)
September 10
Emilio Botín
, Spanish banker (b.
1934
)
Richard Kiel
, American actor (b.
1939
)
September 11
–
Bob Crewe
, American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager and record producer (b.
1930
)
September 12
Atef Ebeid
, Egyptian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b.
1932
)
Ian Paisley
, British politician and First Minister of Northern Ireland (b.
1926
)
Joe Sample
, American pianist and composer (b.
1939
)
Sir Donald Sinden
, English actor (b.
1923
)
September 15
Yitzhak Hofi
, Israeli general (b.
1927
)
Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia
(b.
1922
)
September 17
George Hamilton IV
, American country singer (b.
1937
)
Andriy Husin
, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b.
1972
)
September 20
Anatoly Berezovoy
, Soviet cosmonaut (b.
1942
)
Polly Bergen
, American actress (b.
1930
)
September 24
–
Christopher Hogwood
, English conductor, writer, and musicologist (b.
1941
)
September 25
Sulejman Tihić
, Bosnian politician (b.
1951
)
Dorothy Tyler-Odam
, British athlete (b.
1920
)
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
Fyodor Cherenkov
, Russian footballer and manager (b.
1959
)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
, 41st President of Haiti (b.
1951
)
October 5
Andrea de Cesaris
, Italian race car driver (b.
1959
)
Geoffrey Holder
, Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, choreographer, singer, director and painter (b.
1930
)
Yuri Lyubimov
, Russian actor and director (b.
1917
)
Misty Upham
, Native-American actress (b.
1982
)
October 6
Igor Mitoraj
, Polish sculptor (b.
1944
)
Marian Seldes
, American actress (b.
1928
)
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
Ben Bradlee
, American journalist (b.
1921
)
Gough Whitlam
, 21st
Prime Minister of Australia
(b.
1916
)
October 23
–
Tullio Regge
, Italian physicist and academic (b.
1931
)
October 24
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
, South African middle-distance runner (b.
1980
)
Marcia Strassman
, American actress and singer (b.
1948
)
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
Rainer Hasler
, Liechtensteiner footballer (b.
1958
)
Klas Ingesson
, Swedish footballer (b.
1968
)
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
Acker Bilk
, British jazz clarinetist (b.
1929
)
Veljko Kadijević
, Yugoslavian general (b.
1925
)
November 3
Gordon Tullock
, American economist and academic (b.
1922
)
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
, Indian actor (b.
1950
)
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
María José Alvarado
, Honduran model (b.
1995
)
Alexander Grothendieck
, German-French mathematician (b.
1928
)
November 14
Eugene Dynkin
, Russian-American mathematician and academic (b.
1924
)
Glen A. Larson
, American television producer and writer (b.
1937
)
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
Marion Barry
, American politician (b.
1936
)
Pat Quinn
, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive (b.
1943
)
November 24
–
Viktor Tikhonov
, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (b.
1930
)
November 26
–
Sabah
, Lebanese singer and actress (b.
1927
)
November 27
P. D. James
, English writer and life peer (b.
1920
)
Phillip Hughes
, Australian cricketer (b.
1988
)
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
December 2
–
Jean Béliveau
, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1931
)
December 3
Jacques Barrot
, French politician (b.
1937
)
Ian McLagan
, British musician (b.
1945
)
December 5
–
Queen Fabiola of Belgium
(b.
1928
)
December 6
–
Ralph H. Baer
, American video game pioneer (b.
1922
)
December 8
–
Knut Nystedt
, Norwegian composer (b.
1915
)
December 9
Jorge María Mejía
, Argentine cardinal (b.
1923
)
Mary Ann Mobley
, American actress (b.
1937
)
December 16
–
Ernie Terrell
, American boxer (b.
1939
)
December 18
–
Virna Lisi
, Italian actress (b.
1936
)
December 21
Åke Johansson
, Swedish footballer (b.
1928
)
Udo Jürgens
, Austrian composer and singer (b.
1934
)
Billie Whitelaw
, English actress (b.
1932
)
December 22
Joe Cocker
, English singer (b.
1944
)
Abdel Aziz Mohamed Hegazy
, 38th Prime Minister of Egypt (b.
1923
)
Joseph Sargent
, American film director (b.
1925
)
Christine Cavanaugh
, American voice actress (b.
1963
)
December 26
–
Leo Tindemans
, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b.
1922
)
December 27
–
Tomaž Šalamun
, Slovenian poet (b.
1941
)
December 30
–
Luise Rainer
, German-born American actress (b.
1910
)
December 31
–
Edward Herrmann
, American actor (b.
1943
)
2016:
List
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
Paul Bley
, Canadian pianist (b.
1932
)
Peter Naur
, Danish computer scientist (b.
1928
)
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
André Courrèges
, French fashion designer (b.
1923
)
Princess Ashraf of Iran
(b.
1919
)
January 8
Otis Clay
, American soul singer (b.
1942
)
Maria Teresa de Filippis
, Italian racing driver (b.
1926
)
January 10
David Bowie
, English singer-songwriter and actor (b.
1947
)
Yusuf Zuayyin
, 51st and 53rd Prime Minister of Syria (b.
1931
)
January 11
Monte Irvin
, American baseball player (b.
1919
)
David Margulies
, American actor (b.
1937
)
January 14
René Angélil
, Canadian singer and manager (b.
1942
)
Alan Rickman
, English actor and director (b.
1946
)
January 15
–
Dan Haggerty
, American actor (b.
1941
)
January 18
Glenn Frey
, American musician (b.
1948
)
Michel Tournier
, French writer (b.
1924
)
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
Black
, English singer-songwriter (b.
1962
)
Abe Vigoda
, American actor (b.
1922
)
January 28
–
Paul Kantner
, American singer and musician (b.
1941
)
January 29
Jean-Marie Doré
, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (b.
1938
)
Jacques Rivette
, French film director and critic (b.
1928
)
January 30
Frank Finlay
, English actor (b.
1926
)
Francisco Flores Pérez
, President of El Salvador (b.
1959
)
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
Edgar Mitchell
, American astronaut (b.
1930
)
Maurice White
, American singer-songwriter (b.
1941
)
February 8
–
Amelia Bence
, Argentine actress (b.
1914
)
February 9
–
Sushil Koirala
, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b.
1939
)
February 13
Trifon Ivanov
, Bulgarian footballer (b.
1965
)
Slobodan Santrač
, Serbian football player and manager (b.
1946
)
Antonin Scalia
, American Supreme Court Justice (b.
1936
)
February 15
Vanity
, Canadian singer and actress (b.
1959
)
George Gaynes
, Finnish-born American actor (b.
1917
)
February 16
–
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
, Egyptian politician and diplomat,
Secretary-General of the United Nations
(b.
1922
)
February 17
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal
, Egyptian journalist (b.
1923
)
Andrzej Żuławski
, Polish film director and writer (b.
1940
)
February 19
Umberto Eco
, Italian writer and philosopher (b.
1932
)
Harper Lee
, American writer (b.
1926
)
February 22
Sonny James
, American country singer (b.
1928
)
Douglas Slocombe
, British cinematographer (b.
1913
)
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
George Kennedy
, American actor (b.
1925
)
Frank Kelly
, Irish actor (b.
1938
)
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
Hassan Al-Turabi
, Sudanese spiritual leader (b.
1932
)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
, Austrian conductor (b.
1929
)
Ray Tomlinson
, American computer programmer (b.
1941
)
March 6
–
Nancy Reagan
, American actress,
First Lady of the United States
(b.
1921
)
March 8
George Martin
, English record producer, composer, arranger and engineer (b.
1926
)
Claus Ogerman
, German conductor and composer (b.
1930
)
March 9
Jon English
, English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor (b.
1949
)
Clyde Lovellette
, American professional basketball player (b.
1929
)
Naná Vasconcelos
, Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist (b.
1944
)
March 10
Anita Brookner
, British novelist (b.
1928
)
Keith Emerson
, British musician (b.
1944
)
Roberto Perfumo
, Argentine footballer and sport commentator (b.
1942
)
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
Meir Dagan
, Israeli general and former Director of Mossad (b.
1945
)
Larry Drake
, American actor (b.
1950
)
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
Rob Ford
, Canadian politician (b.
1969
)
Rita Gam
, American actress (b.
1927
)
March 23
–
Ken Howard
, American actor (b.
1944
)
March 24
Roger Cicero
, German jazz and pop musician (b.
1970
)
Johan Cruyff
, Dutch footballer and manager (b.
1947
)
Garry Shandling
, American actor and comedian (b.
1949
)
March 26
–
Raúl Cárdenas
, Mexican footballer and coach (b.
1928
)
March 29
–
Patty Duke
, American actress (b.
1946
)
March 31
Ronnie Corbett
, Scottish comedian (b.
1930
)
Georges Cottier
, Swiss cardinal (b.
1922
)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
, German politician,
Vice-Chancellor of Germany
(b.
1927
)
Zaha Hadid
, Iraqi-British architect (b.
1950
)
Imre Kertész
, Hungarian Nobel author (b.
1929
)
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
Don Francks
, Canadian actor, musician and singer (b.
1932
)
Cesare Maldini
, Italian football player and manager (b.
1932
)
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
Anne Jackson
, American actress (b.
1925
)
Balls Mahoney
, American professional wrestler (b.
1972
)
Arnold Wesker
, British playwright (b.
1932
)
April 16
–
Louis Pilot
, Luxembourgian football player and manager (b.
1940
)
April 17
–
Doris Roberts
, American actress, author, and philanthropist (b.
1930
)
April 19
Patricio Aylwin
, 32nd President of Chile (b.
1918
)
Ronit Elkabetz
, Israeli actress and film director (b.
1964
)
Walter Kohn
, Austrian-born American Nobel physicist (b.
1923
)
April 20
Chyna
, American professional wrestler (b.
1969
)
Guy Hamilton
, British film director (b.
1922
)
Victoria Wood
, British comedian (b.
1953
)
April 21
Lonnie Mack
, American singer-guitarist (b.
1941
)
Prince
, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b.
1958
)
April 23
–
Banharn Silpa-archa
, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b.
1932
)
April 24
Tommy Kono
, Japanese-American weightlifter (b.
1930
)
Billy Paul
, American soul singer (b.
1934
)
Klaus Siebert
, German Olympic biathlete (b.
1955
)
Papa Wemba
, Congolese singer and musician (b.
1949
)
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
May 1
–
Solomon W. Golomb
, American mathematician (b.
1932
)
May 2
–
Afeni Shakur
, American music businesswoman (b.
1947
)
May 4
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
, 2nd President of Burundi (b.
1946
)
Bob Bennett
, American politician (b.
1933
)
May 5
Siné
, French political cartoonist (b.
1928
)
Isao Tomita
, Japanese composer (b.
1932
)
May 6
–
Margot Honecker
, East German politician (b.
1927
)
May 8
Nick Lashaway
, American actor (b.
1988
)
William Schallert
, American actor (b.
1922
)
May 10
–
Kang Young-hoon
, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (b.
1922
)
May 16
–
Giovanni Coppa
, Italian cardinal (b.
1925
)
May 17
Guy Clark
, American singer-songwriter (b.
1941
)
Yūko Mizutani
, Japanese voice actress (b.
1964
)
May 19
Alexandre Astruc
, French film critic and director (b.
1923
)
Marco Pannella
, Italian politician (b.
1930
)
Alan Young
, British-born Canadian-American actor (b.
1919
)
May 21
Akhtar Mansour
, Afghan militant, Supreme leader of the Taliban
Sándor Tarics
, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (b.
1913
)
Nick Menza
, German-born American drummer (b.
1964
)
May 22
–
Bata Živojinović
, Serbian actor and politician (b.
1933
)
May 25
–
Yang Jiang
, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (b.
1911
)
May 26
Loris Francesco Capovilla
, Italian cardinal (b.
1915
)
Arturo Pomar
, Spanish chess grandmaster (b.
1931
)
May 28
Giorgio Albertazzi
, Italian actor (b.
1923
)
David Cañada
, Spanish cyclist (b.
1975
)
May 31
Mohamed Abdelaziz
, 3rd Secretary-General of the Polisario Front (b.
1947
)
Corry Brokken
, Dutch singer (b.
1932
)
Antonio Imbert Barrera
, Dominican politician (b.
1920
)
June
Muhammad Ali
Gordie Howe
Anton Yelchin
Bud Spencer
June 2
–
Tom Kibble
, British physicist (b.
1932
)
June 3
Muhammad Ali
, American Olympic and professional boxer (b.
1942
)
Luis Salom
, Spanish motorcycle racer (b.
1991
)
June 4
–
Carmen Pereira
, Bissau-Guinean politician (b.
1937
)
June 5
–
Jerome Bruner
, American psychologist (b.
1915
)
June 6
Viktor Korchnoi
, Russian-born Swiss chess grandmaster (b.
1931
)
Theresa Saldana
, American actress and author (b.
1954
)
Peter Shaffer
, British playwright and screenwriter (b.
1926
)
Kimbo Slice
, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist, boxer, wrestler and actor (b.
1974
)
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
Christina Grimmie
, American singer (b.
1994
)
Gordie Howe
, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1928
)
June 11
–
Rudi Altig
, German road racing cyclist (b.
1937
)
June 12
Omar Mateen
, American mass murderer (b.
1986
)
George Voinovich
, American politician (b.
1936
)
Janet Waldo
, American actress (b.
1919
)
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
Götz George
, German actor (b.
1938
)
Victor Stănculescu
, Romanian general and politician (b.
1928
)
Anton Yelchin
, Russian-born American actor (b.
1989
)
June 20
–
Edgard Pisani
, French politician (b.
1918
)
June 23
Michael Herr
, American writer, journalist and screenwriter (b.
1940
)
Ralph Stanley
, American bluegrass musician (b.
1927
)
June 25
–
Maurice G. Dantec
, French writer (b.
1959
)
June 27
Bud Spencer
, Italian actor, swimmer, and water polo player (b.
1929
)
Alvin Toffler
, American writer and futurist (b.
1928
)
June 28
Scotty Moore
, American guitarist (b.
1931
)
Pat Summitt
, American basketball coach (b.
1952
)
June 30
–
Martin Lundström
, Swedish Olympic cross country skier (b.
1918
)
July
Elie Wiesel
Zygmunt Zimowski
Ursula Franklin
Piet de Jong
Fazil Iskander
July 1
–
Yves Bonnefoy
, French poet (b.
1923
)
July 2
Michael Cimino
, American screenwriter and film director (b.
1939
)
Rudolf E. Kálmán
, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer (b.
1930
)
Patrick Manning
, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b.
1946
)
Michel Rocard
, Prime Minister of France (b.
1930
)
Elie Wiesel
, Romanian-born American Nobel writer and political activist (b.
1928
)
Caroline Aherne
, English actress, comedian and writer (b.
1963
)
July 3
–
Noel Neill
, American actress (b.
1920
)
July 4
–
Abbas Kiarostami
, Iranian film director (b.
1940
)
July 6
John McMartin
, American actor (b.
1929
)
Turgay Şeren
, Turkish footballer (b.
1932
)
July 8
Abdul Sattar Edhi
, Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, and ascetic (b.
1928
)
William H. McNeill
, Canadian-American historian and author (b.
1917
)
July 9
–
Silvano Piovanelli
, Italian cardinal (b.
1924
)
July 12
–
Goran Hadžić
, Serbian politician and convicted war criminal (b.
1958
)
July 13
Héctor Babenco
, Argentine-Brazilian film director (b.
1946
)
Bernardo Provenzano
, Italian criminal (b.
1933
)
Zygmunt Zimowski
, Polish bishop (b.
1949
)
July 14
–
Péter Esterházy
, Hungarian writer (b.
1950
)
July 16
Nate Thurmond
, American basketball player (b.
1941
)
Alan Vega
, American vocalist and visual artist (b.
1938
)
July 19
Garry Marshall
, American film director, television producer and actor (b.
1934
)
Anthony D. Smith
, British historical sociologist (b.
1939
)
July 22
–
Ursula Franklin
, German-born Canadian scientist (b.
1921
)
July 23
–
Thorbjörn Fälldin
, 2-Time Prime Minister of Sweden (b.
1926
)
July 25
Halil İnalcık
, Turkish historian (b.
1916
)
Dwight Jones
, American basketball player (b.
1952
)
Tim LaHaye
, American evangelist and author (b.
1926
)
July 27
Einojuhani Rautavaara
, Finnish composer (b.
1928
)
Piet de Jong
, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b.
1915
)
July 28
Mahasweta Devi
, Indian social activist and writer (b.
1926
)
Vladica Kovačević
, Serbian footballer (b.
1940
)
Émile Derlin Zinsou
, 4th President of
Dahomey
(b.
1918
)
July 30
–
Gloria DeHaven
, American actress (b.
1925
)
July 31
Fazil Iskander
, Russian writer (b.
1929
)
Bobbie Heine Miller
, South African tennis player (b.
1909
)
Chiyonofuji Mitsugu
, Japanese sumo wrestler (b.
1955
)
Seymour Papert
, South African-born American mathematician and computer scientist (b.
1928
)
August
Queen Anne of Romania
Mohammad Ali Samatar
Walter Scheel
Juan Gabriel
Gene Wilder
August 1
–
Queen Anne of Romania
, French-born consort of former
King Michael of Romania
(b.
1923
)
August 2
David Huddleston
, American actor (b.
1930
)
Franciszek Macharski
, Polish cardinal (b.
1927
)
Ahmed Zewail
, Egyptian-American Nobel chemist (b.
1946
)
August 3
–
Chris Amon
, New Zealand motor racing driver (b.
1943
)
August 9
–
Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
(b.
1951
)
August 13
Kenny Baker
, English actor (b.
1934
)
Françoise Mallet-Joris
, Belgian writer (b.
1930
)
August 14
Hermann Kant
, German writer (b.
1926
)
Fyvush Finkel
, American actor (b.
1922
)
August 15
Dalian Atkinson
, English footballer (b.
1968
)
Stefan Henze
, German canoeist and coach (b.
1981
)
Bobby Hutcherson
, American jazz musician (b.
1941
)
August 16
Andrew Florent
, Australian tennis player (b.
1970
)
João Havelange
, Brazilian athlete and football executive (b.
1916
)
August 17
–
Arthur Hiller
, Canadian film director (b.
1923
)
August 18
–
Ernst Nolte
, German historian (b.
1923
)
August 19
Lou Pearlman
, American music manager and record producer (b.
1954
)
Nina Ponomaryova
, Russian Olympic discus thrower (b.
1929
)
Jack Riley
, American actor (b.
1935
)
Mohammad Ali Samatar
, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (b.
1931
)
August 22
S. R. Nathan
, 6th
President of Singapore
(b.
1924
)
Toots Thielemans
, Belgian jazz musician (b.
1922
)
August 23
Steven Hill
, American actor (b.
1922
)
Berit Mørdre Lammedal
, Norwegian cross-country skier (b.
1940
)
Reinhard Selten
, German Nobel economist (b.
1930
)
August 24
Michel Butor
, French writer (b.
1926
)
Walter Scheel
, 8th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b.
1919
)
Roger Y. Tsien
, American Nobel biologist (b.
1952
)
August 25
James Cronin
, American Nobel physicist (b.
1931
)
Sonia Rykiel
, French fashion designer (b.
1930
)
Rudy Van Gelder
, American recording engineer (b.
1924
)
August 26
–
Harald Grønningen
, Norwegian cross country skier (b.
1934
)
August 28
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
, Israeli politician and former Deputy Prime Minister (b.
1936
)
Mr. Fuji
, American professional wrestler and wrestling manager (b.
1934
)
Juan Gabriel
, Mexican singer-songwriter (b.
1950
)
August 29
–
Gene Wilder
, American actor (b.
1933
)
August 30
Věra Čáslavská
, Czech gymnast (b.
1942
)
Marc Riboud
, French photographer (b.
1923
)
September
Islam Karimov
Phyllis Schlafly
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Shimon Peres
September 1
–
Jon Polito
, American actor (b.
1950
)
September 2
Islam Karimov
, 1st President of Uzbekistan (b.
1938
)
Daniel Willems
, Belgian cyclist (b.
1956
)
September 3
Johnny Rebel
, American white supremacist singer and songwriter (b.
1938
)
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
, French mathematician (b.
1957
)
September 5
Hugh O'Brian
, American actor (b.
1925
)
Phyllis Schlafly
, American writer and political activist (b.
1924
)
September 7
Joseph Keller
, American mathematician (b.
1923
)
Norbert Schemansky
, American weightlifter (b.
1924
)
September 8
Prince Buster
, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b.
1938
)
Dragiša Pešić
, 5th Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro (b.
1954
)
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
Edward Albee
, American playwright (b.
1928
)
Gabriele Amorth
, Italian Catholic priest and exorcist (b.
1925
)
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
, 10th President and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (b.
1920
)
António Mascarenhas Monteiro
, 2nd President of Cape Verde (b.
1944
)
September 17
Charmian Carr
, American actress (b.
1942
)
Sigge Parling
, Swedish footballer (b.
1930
)
September 20
–
Curtis Hanson
, American film director and screenwriter (b.
1945
)
September 23
–
Marcel Artelesa
, French footballer (b.
1938
)
September 24
Bill Mollison
, Australian researcher, author and biologist (b.
1928
)
Bill Nunn
, American actor (b.
1953
)
September 25
José Fernández
, Cuban-American baseball pitcher (b.
1992
)
David Padilla
, 53rd President of Bolivia (b.
1927
)
Arnold Palmer
, American professional golfer (b.
1929
)
Jean Shepard
, American honky-tonk singer-songwriter (b.
1933
)
Rod Temperton
, English songwriter, record producer and musician (b.
1949
)
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
Gary Dubin
, American actor and voice actor (b.
1959
)
Stylianos Pattakos
, Greek military officer (b.
1912
)
October 9
Mamadou Dembelé
, 3rd Prime Minister of Mali (b.
1934
)
Andrzej Wajda
, Polish film director (b.
1926
)
October 11
–
Teatao Teannaki
, 2nd President of Kiribati (b.
1936
)
October 12
–
Thomas Mikal Ford
, American actor and comedian (b.
1964
)
October 13
Bhumibol Adulyadej
, King of Thailand (b.
1927
)
Dario Fo
, Italian actor, Nobel playwright and comedian (b.
1926
)
October 14
–
Klim Churyumov
, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (b.
1937
)
October 16
Kigeli V
, King of Rwanda (b.
1936
)
Viktor Zubkov
, Russian basketball player (b.
1937
)
October 20
Michael Massee
, American actor (b.
1952
)
Junko Tabei
, Japanese
mountaineer
(b.
1939
)
October 23
–
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani
, Emir of Qatar (b.
1932
)
October 24
Jorge Batlle
, 38th President of Uruguay (b.
1927
)
Benjamin Creme
, Scottish artist, author and esotericist (b.
1922
)
Reinhard Häfner
, German footballer (b.
1952
)
Bobby Vee
, American pop singer (b.
1943
)
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
Roland Dyens
, French classical guitarist and composer (b.
1955
)
Pen Sovan
, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia (b.
1936
)
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
Leonard Cohen
, Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (b.
1934
)
Janet Reno
, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (b.
1938
)
November 11
Ilse Aichinger
, Austrian writer (b.
1921
)
Željko Čajkovski
, Croatian football player (b.
1925
)
Robert Vaughn
, American actor (b.
1932
)
November 12
–
Lupita Tovar
, Mexican-American actress (b.
1910
)
November 13
Enzo Maiorca
, Italian free diver (b.
1931
)
Leon Russell
, American musician (b.
1942
)
November 14
Gwen Ifill
, American journalist (b.
1955
)
Gardnar Mulloy
, American tennis player (b.
1913
)
November 15
Mose Allison
, American jazz musician (b.
1927
)
Sixto Durán Ballén
, 37th President of Ecuador (b.
1921
)
November 16
Jay Wright Forrester
, American computer engineer (b.
1918
)
Melvin Laird
, American politician and writer (b.
1922
)
Daniel Prodan
, Romanian football player (b.
1972
)
November 17
–
Whitney Smith
, American vexillologist (b.
1940
)
November 18
Denton Cooley
, American heart surgeon (b.
1920
)
Sharon Jones
, American soul singer (b.
1956
)
November 20
Gabriel Badilla
, Costa Rican footballer (b.
1984
)
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
, 5th President of Greece (b.
1926
)
William Trevor
, Irish writer (b.
1928
)
November 22
–
M. Balamuralikrishna
, Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (b.
1930
)
November 23
Rita Barberá
, Spanish politician (b.
1948
)
Andrew Sachs
, German-born British actor (b.
1930
)
November 24
Florence Henderson
, American actress (b.
1934
)
Pauline Oliveros
, American composer (b.
1932
)
November 25
Fidel Castro
, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the State Council of Cuba (b.
1926
)
Ron Glass
, American actor (b.
1945
)
David Hamilton
, British photographer (b.
1933
)
November 27
–
Ioannis Grivas
, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b.
1923
)
November 28
Cléber Santana
, Brazilian footballer (b.
1981
)
Mark Taimanov
, Russian chess Grandmaster and concert pianist (b.
1926
)
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
Geydar Dzhemal
, Russian Islamic philosopher (b.
1947
)
Jayalalithaa Jayaram
, Indian politician (b.
1948
)
December 6
–
Peter Vaughan
, British actor (b.
1923
)
December 7
Junaid Jamshed
, Pakistani recording artist (b.
1964
)
Paul Elvstrøm
, Danish Olympic yachtsman (b.
1928
)
Greg Lake
, British musician (b.
1947
)
December 8
John Glenn
, American aviator, astronaut and politician (b.
1921
)
Joseph Mascolo
, American actor (b.
1929
)
December 10
–
Esma Redžepova
, Macedonian-Romani singer (b.
1943
)
December 12
E. R. Braithwaite
, Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (b.
1912
)
Javier Echevarría Rodríguez
, Spanish bishop (b.
1932
)
December 13
Thomas Schelling
, American Nobel economist (b.
1921
)
Alan Thicke
, Canadian actor and songwriter (b.
1947
)
December 14
Paulo Evaristo Arns
, Brazilian prelate (b.
1921
)
Bernard Fox
, Welsh actor (b.
1927
)
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
Heinrich Schiff
, Austrian cellist (b.
1951
)
Piers Sellers
, British-American astronaut and meteorologist (b.
1955
)
Vesna Vulović
, Serbian air disaster survivor (b.
1950
)
December 24
Richard Adams
, English novelist (b.
1920
)
Rick Parfitt
, British musician (b.
1948
)
Liz Smith
, British actress (b.
1921
)
December 25
George Michael
, British singer (b.
1963
)
Vera Rubin
, American astronomer (b.
1928
)
December 26
–
Ashot Anastasian
, Armenian chess grandmaster (b.
1964
)
December 27
Carrie Fisher
, American actress and writer (b.
1956
)
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
, 12th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b.
1933
)
December 28
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez
, President of Uruguay (b.
1925
)
Michel Déon
, French writer (b.
1919
)
Debbie Reynolds
, American actress, dancer, and singer (b.
1932
)
December 29
Néstor Gonçalves
, Uruguayan footballer (b.
1936
)
Ferdinand Kübler
, Swiss racing cyclist (b.
1919
)
December 30
–
Tyrus Wong
, Chinese-born American artist (b.
1910
)
December 31
William Christopher
, American actor and comedian (b.
1932
)
Henning Christophersen
, Danish politician (b.
1939
)
2018:
List
January
Thomas S. Monson
John Young
France Gall
Peter Sutherland
Odvar Nordli
Dolores O'Riordan
Dorothy Malone
Ingvar Kamprad
Ion Ciubuc
January 2
Rick Hall
, American record producer, songwriter, and music publisher (b.
1932
)
Thomas S. Monson
, American religious leader and writer (b.
1927
)
January 4
Aharon Appelfeld
, Ukrainian-Israeli writer (b.
1932
)
Ray Thomas
, English musician (b.
1941
)
January 5
Thomas Bopp
, American astronomer (b.
1949
)
Antonio Angelillo
, Italian-Argentine footballer (b.
1937
)
Jerry Van Dyke
, American actor (b.
1931
)
John Young
, American astronaut (b.
1930
)
January 6
–
Horace Ashenfelter
, American Olympic athlete (b.
1923
)
January 7
France Gall
, French singer (b.
1947
)
Peter Sutherland
, Irish businessman and politician (b.
1946
)
January 8
Juan Carlos García
, Honduran footballer (b.
1988
)
Donnelly Rhodes
, Canadian actor (b.
1937
)
George Maxwell Richards
, Trinidadian politician, 4th
President of Trinidad and Tobago
(b.
1931
)
January 9
Terence Marsh
, British production designer (b.
1931
)
Odvar Nordli
, 21st
Prime Minister of Norway
(b.
1927
)
Mario Perniola
, Italian philosopher (b.
1941
)
January 10
Eddie Clarke
, British musician (b.
1950
)
Tommy Lawrence
, English footballer (b.
1940
)
January 11
–
Edgar Ray Killen
, American criminal (b.
1925
)
January 14
Dan Gurney
, American racing driver (b.
1931
)
Cyrille Regis
, English footballer (b.
1958
)
Hugh Wilson
, American film director and television producer (b.
1943
)
January 15
Edwin Hawkins
, American musician (b.
1943
)
Dolores O'Riordan
, Irish musician (b.
1971
)
Peter Wyngarde
, British actor (b.
1927
?)
January 16
Bradford Dillman
, American actor (b.
1930
)
Oliver Ivanović
, Serbian politician (b.
1953
)
Jo Jo White
, American basketball player (b.
1946
)
January 17
–
Simon Shelton
, English actor (b.
1966
)
January 18
Lucas Mangope
, South African politician (b.
1923
)
Clara Marangoni
, Italian gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (b.
1915
)
Peter Mayle
, English author (b.
1939
)
Stansfield Turner
, American admiral and academic (b.
1923
)
January 19
Anna Campori
, Italian actress (b.
1917
)
Olivia Cole
, American actress (b.
1942
)
Dorothy Malone
, American actress (b.
1924
)
Fredo Santana
, American rapper and singer-songwriter (b.
1990
)
January 20
Paul Bocuse
, French chef (b.
1926
)
Naomi Parker Fraley
, American naval machiner (b.
1921
)
January 21
Yves Afonso
, French actor (b.
1944
)
Philippe Gondet
, French footballer (b.
1942
)
Tsukasa Hosaka
, Japanese footballer (b.
1937
)
Jens Okking
, Danish actor and politician (b.
1939
)
Connie Sawyer
, American actress (b.
1912
)
January 22
Jimmy Armfield
, English footballer and manager (b.
1935
)
Ursula K. Le Guin
, American novelist (b.
1929
)
January 23
Hugh Masekela
, South African jazz musician (b.
1939
)
Nicanor Parra
, Chilean poet (b.
1914
)
January 24
Jack Ketchum
, American author (b.
1946
)
Mark E. Smith
, English singer-songwriter (b.
1957
)
January 25
Claribel Alegría
, Nicaraguan poet (b.
1924
)
Neagu Djuvara
, Romanian historian, essayist, and philosopher (b.
1916
)
January 26
Elizabeth Hawley
, American journalist (b.
1923
)
Hiromu Nonaka
, Japanese politician (b.
1925
)
January 27
Ingvar Kamprad
, Swedish businessman (b.
1926
)
Mort Walker
, American comic artist (b.
1923
)
January 28
–
Gene Sharp
, American political scientist (b.
1928
)
January 29
–
Ion Ciubuc
, 7th
Prime Minister of Moldova
(b.
1943
)
January 30
Mark Salling
, American actor (b.
1982
)
Azeglio Vicini
, Italian footballer and coach (b.
1933
)
January 31
Rasual Butler
, American basketball player (b.
1979
)
Ann Gillis
, American actress (b.
1927
)
Leonid Kadeniuk
, Ukrainian cosmonaut (b.
1951
)
February
John Mahoney
Prince Henrik
Ruud Lubbers
Morgan Tsvangirai
Billy Graham
Sridevi
Quini
February 1
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart
, Cuban nuclear physicist (b.
1949
)
Cliff Bourland
, American athlete (b.
1921
)
Dennis Edwards
, American singer (b.
1943
)
Barys Kit
, Belarusian-American rocket scientist (b.
1910
)
February 2
Jon Huntsman Sr.
, American businessman and philanthropist (b.
1937
)
Joseph Polchinski
, American theoretical physicist (b.
1954
)
Ole Thestrup
, Danish actor (b.
1948
)
February 3
Michael Harner
, American anthropologist and author (b.
1929
)
Károly Palotai
, Hungarian footballer and referee (b.
1935
)
Rolf Zacher
, German actor (b.
1941
)
February 4
Alan Baker
, English mathematician (b.
1939
)
John Mahoney
, English-American actor (b.
1940
)
February 5
–
Ladislav Kačáni
, Slovak footballer and coach (b.
1931
)
February 6
–
Donald Lynden-Bell
, English astrophysicist (b.
1935
)
February 7
John Perry Barlow
, American internet activist, writer, and lyricist (b.
1947
)
Mickey Jones
, American musician (b.
1941
)
Pat Torpey
, American drummer (b.
1953
)
February 8
–
Jarrod Bannister
, Australian athlete (b.
1984
)
February 9
Reg E. Cathey
, American actor (b.
1958
)
John Gavin
, American actor and diplomat (b.
1931
)
István Hevesi
, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (b.
1931
)
Jóhann Jóhannsson
, Icelandic film composer (b.
1969
)
Liam Miller
, Irish footballer (b.
1981
)
February 10
–
Alan R. Battersby
, English organic chemist (b.
1925
)
February 11
Vic Damone
, American singer and actor (b.
1928
)
Asma Jahangir
, Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer (b.
1952
)
February 12
Leo Falcam
, 5th President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b.
1935
)
Louise Latham
, American actress (b.
1922
)
February 13
Joseph Bonnel
, French footballer (b.
1939
)
Dobri Dobrev
, Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist (b.
1914
)
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
(b.
1934
)
February 14
Ruud Lubbers
, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b.
1939
)
Morgan Tsvangirai
, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (b.
1952
)
February 15
–
Lassie Lou Ahern
, American actress (b.
1920
)
February 18
Günter Blobel
, Silesian-American Nobel biologist (b.
1936
)
Didier Lockwood
, French jazz violinist (b.
1956
)
Idrissa Ouédraogo
, Burkinabé film director (b.
1954
)
February 19
Sergey Litvinov
, Russian Olympic hammer thrower (b.
1958
)
Yury Tyukalov
, Russian Olympic rower (b.
1930
)
February 20
–
Jiichiro Date
, Japanese wrestler (b.
1952
)
February 21
Emma Chambers
, English actress (b.
1964
)
Billy Graham
, American evangelist (b.
1918
)
Ren Osugi
, Japanese actor (b.
1951
)
February 22
Nanette Fabray
, American actress (b.
1920
)
Forges
, Spanish cartoonist (b.
1942
)
Richard E. Taylor
, Canadian Nobel physicist (b.
1929
)
February 23
–
Lewis Gilbert
, British film director, producer, and screenwriter (b.
1920
)
February 24
Durward Knowles
, Bahamian sailor (b.
1917
)
Bud Luckey
, American actor and animator (b.
1934
)
Sridevi
, Indian actress (b.
1963
)
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
March 1
Anatoly Lein
, Soviet-American chess grandmaster (b.
1931
)
María Rubio
, Mexican actress (b.
1934
)
Luigi Taveri
, Swiss motorcycle racer (b.
1929
)
March 2
Jesús López Cobos
, Spanish conductor (b.
1940
)
Gillo Dorfles
, Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher (b.
1910
)
Billy Herrington
, American model and pornographic film actor (b.
1969
)
March 3
Roger Bannister
, English middle-distance athlete (b.
1929
)
David Ogden Stiers
, American actor (b.
1942
)
March 4
–
Davide Astori
, Italian footballer (b.
1987
)
March 5
Trevor Baylis
, English inventor (b.
1937
)
Hayden White
, American historian (b.
1928
)
March 6
–
John Sulston
, British Nobel biologist and academic (b.
1942
)
March 7
–
Reynaldo Bignone
,
President of Argentina
(b.
1928
)
March 9
Oskar Gröning
, German war criminal (b.
1921
)
Hubert de Givenchy
, French fashion designer (b.
1927
)
Jung Jae-sung
, South Korean badminton player (b.
1982
)
Ralf Waldmann
, German motorcycle racer (b.
1966
)
March 11
Ken Dodd
, English comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor (b.
1927
)
Karl Lehmann
, German cardinal (b.
1936
)
March 12
Nokie Edwards
, American musician (b.
1935
)
Ken Flach
, American tennis player (b.
1963
)
Oleg Tabakov
, Soviet and Russian actor (b.
1935
)
March 14
Jim Bowen
, English stand-up comedian (b.
1937
)
Alfred W. Crosby
, American ecological historian (b.
1931
)
Marielle Franco
, Brazilian activist and politician (b.
1979
)
Rubén Galván
, Argentine footballer (b.
1952
)
Stephen Hawking
, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b.
1942
)
Adrian Lamo
, Colombian-American computer hacker (b.
1981
)
Liam O'Flynn
, Irish uilleann piper (b.
1945
)
March 16
–
Louise Slaughter
, American politician (b.
1929
)
March 17
–
Phan Văn Khải
, 5th
Prime Minister of Vietnam
(b.
1933
)
March 18
Barkat Gourad Hamadou
, 4th
Prime Minister of Djibouti
(b.
1930
)
Li Ao
, Chinese-Taiwanese writer and politician (b.
1935
)
Ivor Richard, Baron Richard
, English politician (b.
1932
)
March 19
Irina Beglyakova
, Russian athlete (b.
1933
)
Keith O'Brien
, Scottish cardinal (b.
1938
)
Kedarnath Singh
, Indian poet (b.
1934
)
March 20
Katie Boyle
, Italian-English actress (b.
1926
)
Peter G. Peterson
, American banker (b.
1926
)
March 22
René Houseman
, Argentine footballer (b.
1953
)
Johan van Hulst
, Dutch politician, author, and academic (b.
1911
)
Morgana King
, American jazz singer and actress (b.
1930
)
March 23
DuShon Monique Brown
, American actress (b.
1968
)
Debbie Lee Carrington
, American actress (b.
1959
)
Philip Kerr
, English author (b.
1956
)
Zell Miller
, American politician (b.
1932
)
March 24
José Antonio Abreu
, Venezuelan conductor and politician (b.
1939
)
Lys Assia
, Swiss singer (b.
1924
)
March 26
–
Sergei Mavrodi
, Russian criminal and politician (b.
1955
)
March 27
–
Stéphane Audran
, French actress (b.
1932
)
March 30
Aureliano Bolognesi
, Italian Olympic boxer (b.
1930
)
Sabahudin Kurt
, Bosnian singer (b.
1935
)
André Bo-Boliko Lokonga
, 9th
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(b.
1934
)
Bill Maynard
, English comedian and actor (b.
1928
)
April
Efraín Ríos Montt
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Isao Takahata
Miloš Forman
R. Lee Ermey
Barbara Bush
Avicii
Verne Troyer
April 1
Steven Bochco
, American television producer (b.
1943
)
Efraín Ríos Montt
, 26th
President of Guatemala
(b.
1926
)
April 2
Susan Anspach
, American actress (b.
1942
)
Morris Halle
, Latvian-American linguist (b.
1923
)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
, South African activist and politician (b.
1936
)
April 3
–
Lill-Babs
, Swedish singer (b.
1938
)
April 4
Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad
, Syrian hierarch (b.
1930
)
Soon-Tek Oh
, Korean-American actor (b.
1932
)
Johnny Valiant
, American professional wrestler and manager (b.
1946
)
Ray Wilkins
, English footballer and manager (b.
1956
)
April 5
Eric Bristow
, English darts player (b.
1957
)
Tim O'Connor
, American actor (b.
1927
)
Branislav Pokrajac
, Serbian Olympic handball player (b.
1947
)
Isao Takahata
, Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter, and producer (b.
1935
)
Cecil Taylor
, American pianist and poet (b.
1929
)
April 6
Daniel Akaka
, American educator and politician (b.
1924
)
Jacques Higelin
, French pop singer (b.
1940
)
Aleksandr Kurlovich
, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (b.
1961
)
April 7
–
Peter Grünberg
, German Nobel physicist (b.
1939
)
April 8
Leila Abashidze
, Georgian actress, director, and writer (b.
1929
)
Juraj Herz
, Czech film director, actor, and scene designer (b.
1934
)
André Lerond
, French footballer (b.
1930
)
Chuck McCann
, American actor (b.
1934
)
John Miles
, English racing driver (b.
1943
)
April 9
–
Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff
, German supercentenarian (b.
1905
)
April 12
–
Sergio Pitol
, Mexican novelist and translator (b.
1933
)
April 13
Art Bell
, American broadcaster and author (b.
1945
)
Miloš Forman
, Czech-American film director (b.
1932
)
April 14
Hal Greer
, American basketball player (b.
1936
)
Jean-Claude Malgoire
, French conductor (b.
1940
)
April 15
R. Lee Ermey
, American actor (b.
1944
)
Michael Halliday
, English-Australian linguist (b.
1925
)
Vittorio Taviani
, Italian film director (b.
1929
)
April 16
Harry Anderson
, American actor and magician (b.
1952
)
Choi Eun-hee
, South Korean actress (b.
1926
)
Pamela Gidley
, American actress and model (b.
1965
)
Dona Ivone Lara
, Brazilian singer and composer (b.
1921
)
Ivan Mauger
, New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider (b.
1939
)
April 17
–
Barbara Bush
, 41st
First Lady of the United States
(b.
1925
)
April 18
–
Bruno Sammartino
, Italian professional wrestler (b.
1935
)
April 19
Vladimir Lyakhov
, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b.
1941
)
Saleh Ali al-Sammad
, Yemeni politician (b.
1979
)
April 20
Avicii
, Swedish DJ (b.
1989
)
Roy Bentley
, English footballer (b.
1924
)
April 21
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
, Brazilian film director (b.
1928
)
Verne Troyer
, American actor (b.
1969
)
April 22
Demeter Bitenc
, Slovenian actor (b.
1922
)
Nino Khurtsidze
, Georgian chess player (b.
1975
)
April 24
–
Henri Michel
, French footballer and coach (b.
1947
)
April 25
Abbas
, Iranian photographer (b.
1944
)
Shuhrat Abbosov
, Uzbek actor, director and screenwriter (b.
1931
)
Michael Anderson
, English film director (b.
1920
)
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
Luis García Meza
, 68th
President of Bolivia
(b.
1929
)
Rose Laurens
, French singer-songwriter (b.
1953
)
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn
, Scottish politician (b.
1945
)
Lester James Peries
, Sri Lankan film director (b.
1919
)
May
Tessa Jowell
Margot Kidder
Tom Wolfe
Philip Roth
Alan Bean
Dick Quax
Jens Christian Skou
May 1
Elmar Altvater
, German political scientist (b.
1938
)
Wanda Wiłkomirska
, Polish violinist and teacher (b.
1929
)
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
Anne V. Coates
, British film editor (b.
1925
)
George Deukmejian
, American politician (b.
1928
)
May 9
–
Per Kirkeby
, Danish artist (b.
1938
)
May 10
David Goodall
, English-Australian scientist (b.
1914
)
Scott Hutchison
, Scottish musician (b.
1981
)
May 11
–
Gérard Genette
, French literary theorist (b.
1930
)
May 12
Tessa Jowell
, British politician (b.
1947
)
Antonio Mercero
, Spanish film and television director (b.
1936
)
Dennis Nilsen
, Scottish serial killer (b.
1945
)
May 13
Glenn Branca
, American composer and musician (b.
1948
)
Margot Kidder
, Canadian-American actress and activist (b.
1948
)
May 14
Elaine Edwards
, American politician (b.
1929
)
E. C. George Sudarshan
, Indian theoretical physicist (b.
1931
)
William Vance
, Belgian comics artist (b.
1935
)
Tom Wolfe
, American author and journalist (b.
1930
)
May 15
Jlloyd Samuel
, Trinidadian footballer (b.
1981
)
Ray Wilson
, English footballer (b.
1934
)
May 16
Joseph Campanella
, American actor (b.
1924
)
Lucian Pintilie
, Romanian film director (b.
1933
)
May 17
Nicole Fontaine
, French politician (b.
1942
)
Richard Pipes
, Polish-American academic and historian (b.
1923
)
May 18
–
Darío Castrillón Hoyos
, Colombian cardinal (b.
1929
)
May 19
Robert Indiana
, American artist (b.
1928
)
Bernard Lewis
, British-American historian (b.
1916
)
May 20
–
Patricia Morison
, American actress (b.
1915
)
May 21
Anna Maria Ferrero
, Italian actress (b.
1934
)
Allyn Ann McLerie
, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (b.
1926
)
Clint Walker
, American actor (b.
1927
)
May 22
Philip Roth
, American writer (b.
1933
)
Daniela Samulski
, German swimmer (b.
1984
)
May 23
–
Luis Posada Carriles
, Cuban terrorist (b.
1928
)
May 24
Gudrun Burwitz
, German Neo-Nazi militant (b.
1929
)
Jerry Maren
, American actor (b.
1920
)
TotalBiscuit
, British gaming commentator and critic (b.
1984
)
May 25
–
Naser Malek Motiei
, Iranian actor (b.
1930
)
May 26
Alan Bean
, American astronaut (b.
1932
)
Ted Dabney
, American engineer (b.
1937
)
Roger Piantoni
, French footballer (b.
1931
)
May 27
Gardner Dozois
, American science fiction writer (b.
1947
)
Aly Lotfy Mahmoud
, 44th
Prime Minister of Egypt
(b.
1935
)
Donald H. Peterson
, American astronaut (b.
1933
)
May 28
Serge Dassault
, French businessman and politician (b.
1925
)
Cornelia Frances
, English-Australian actress (b.
1941
)
María Dolores Pradera
, Spanish singer and actress (b.
1924
)
Dick Quax
, Dutch-New Zealand Olympic athlete (b.
1948
)
Jens Christian Skou
, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1918
)
Ola Ullsten
, 28th
Prime Minister of Sweden
(b.
1931
)
June
Paul D. Boyer
Anthony Bourdain
Stanislav Govorukhin
Big Van Vader
XXXTentacion
Joe Jackson
Harlan Ellison
Arvid Carlsson
June 1
John Julius Norwich
, English historian and writer (b.
1929
)
Sinan Sakić
, Serbian singer (b.
1956
)
June 2
Paul D. Boyer
, American biochemist and
Nobel Prize
Laureate (b.
1918
)
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
, Austrian ethologist (b.
1928
)
Emil Wolf
, Czech-American physicist (b.
1922
)
June 3
Frank Carlucci
, American politician (b.
1930
)
Miguel Obando y Bravo
, Nicaraguan cardinal (b.
1926
)
June 5
–
Kate Spade
, American fashion designer (b.
1962
)
June 6
Mateja Matevski
, Macedonian poet and writer (b.
1929
)
Kira Muratova
, Ukrainian director, screenwriter, and actress (b.
1934
)
Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx
,
Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(b.
1916
)
June 7
David Douglas Duncan
, American photojournalist (b.
1916
)
Arie den Hartog
, Dutch road bicycle racer (b.
1941
)
June 8
Per Ahlmark
, Swedish politician and writer (b.
1939
)
Anthony Bourdain
, American chef, writer, and television personality (b.
1956
)
Maria Bueno
, Brazilian tennis player (b.
1939
)
Eunice Gayson
, English actress (b.
1928
)
Danny Kirwan
, British musician (b.
1950
)
Liu Yichang
, Hong Kong writer and novelist (b.
1918
)
June 9
Reinhard Hardegen
, German U-boat commander (b.
1913
)
Fadil Vokrri
, Kosovo-Albanian footballer (b.
1960
)
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
Anne Donovan
, American basketball player (b.
1961
)
D. J. Fontana
, American musician (b.
1931
)
Charles Vinci
, American Olympic weightlifter (b.
1933
)
June 14
Fazlullah
, Pakistani terrorist, leader of
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
(b.
1974
)
Stanislav Govorukhin
, Russian film director, screenwriter, and politician (b.
1936
)
June 15
Matt "Guitar" Murphy
, American blues guitarist (b.
1929
)
Leslie Grantham
, British actor (b.
1947
)
June 16
–
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
, Russian conductor (b.
1931
)
June 18
Walter Bahr
, American soccer player (b.
1927
)
Big Van Vader
, American professional wrestler and football player (b.
1955
)
XXXTentacion
, American singer and rapper (b.
1998
)
June 19
Stanley Cavell
, American philosopher (b.
1926
)
Ivan Drach
, Ukrainian poet and political activist (b.
1936
)
Princess Elisabeth of Denmark
, Danish diplomat and cousin of
Margarethe II of Denmark
(b.
1935
)
Sergio Gonella
, Italian businessman and football referee (b.
1933
)
Koko
, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b.
1971
)
June 20
Dante Caputo
, Argentine diplomat (b.
1943
)
Sándor Kányádi
, Hungarian poet and translator (b.
1929
)
Peter Thomson
, Australian golfer (b.
1929
)
June 21
–
Charles Krauthammer
, American political commentator (b.
1950
)
June 22
Grigory Barenblatt
, Russian mathematician (b.
1927
)
Geoffrey Oryema
, Ugandan musician (b.
1953
)
Vinnie Paul
, American drummer (b.
1964
)
June 23
Alberto Fouilloux
, Chilean footballer (b.
1940
)
Kim Jong-pil
, 9th
Prime Minister of South Korea
(b.
1926
)
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
Harlan Ellison
, American writer (b.
1934
)
Christine Nöstlinger
, Austrian writer (b.
1936
)
June 29
Arvid Carlsson
, Swedish neuropharmacologist and
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1923
)
Steve Ditko
, American comic-book writer and artist (b.
1927
)
Irena Szewińska
, Polish Olympic sprinter (b.
1946
)
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
Henry Butler
, American jazz pianist and photographer (b.
1948
)
Antonio Halili
, Filipino politician (b.
1946
)
Bill Watrous
, American jazz trombonist (b.
1939
)
July 3
–
Richard Swift
, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and filmmaker (b.
1977
)
July 4
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
, French poet and novelist (b.
1914
)
Henri Dirickx
, Belgian footballer (b.
1927
)
Robby Müller
, Dutch cinematographer (b.
1940
)
July 5
Claude Lanzmann
, French filmmaker (b.
1925
)
Ed Schultz
, American political commentator and television host (b.
1954
)
Jean-Louis Tauran
, French cardinal (b.
1943
)
July 6
Shoko Asahara
, Japanese cult leader and terrorist (b.
1955
)
Vlatko Ilievski
, Macedonian singer and actor (b.
1985
)
July 7
–
Tyler Honeycutt
, American basketball player (b.
1990
)
July 8
Tab Hunter
, American actor and singer (b.
1931
)
Frank Ramsey
, American basketball player (b.
1931
)
Carlo Vanzina
, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter (b.
1951
)
July 9
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
, former
Secretary General of NATO
(b.
1919
)
Hans Günter Winkler
, German show jumping rider (b.
1926
)
July 10
Henry Morgenthau III
, American author and television producer (b.
1917
)
Mien Schopman-Klaver
, Dutch Olympic athlete (b.
1911
)
July 11
–
Lindy Remigino
, American Olympic athlete (b.
1931
)
July 12
Roger Perry
, American actor (b.
1933
)
Robert Wolders
, Dutch actor (b.
1936
)
July 13
Claude Seignolle
, French author (b.
1917
)
Thorvald Stoltenberg
, Norwegian politician (b.
1931
)
July 14
–
Theo-Ben Gurirab
, 2nd
Prime Minister of Namibia
(b.
1938
)
July 15
Ray Emery
, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1982
)
Dragutin Šurbek
, Croatian table tennis player (b.
1946
)
July 16
–
Gabriel Caruana
, Maltese artist (b.
1929
)
July 17
–
Yvonne Blake
, British-Spanish costume designer (b.
1940
)
July 18
Anne Olivier Bell
, English literary editor and art scholar (b.
1916
)
Adrian Cronauer
, American radio personality (b.
1938
)
John Banks Elliott
, Ghanaian diplomat and statesman (b.
1917
)
Carlos Aldunate Lyon
, Chilean Jesuit priest, teacher, and writer (b.
1916
)
Burton Richter
, American Nobel physicist (b.
1931
)
July 19
Shinobu Hashimoto
, Japanese screenwriter (b.
1918
)
Denis Ten
, Kazakh figure skater (b.
1993
)
July 22
–
Frank Havens
, French sprint canoeist (b.
1924
)
July 23
Paul Madeley
, English footballer (b.
1944
)
Oksana Shachko
, Ukrainian feminist (b.
1987
)
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
Brian Christopher
, American professional wrestler (b.
1972
)
Oliver Dragojević
, Croatian singer (b.
1947
)
Vibeke Skofterud
, Norwegian cross-country skier (b.
1980
)
Tomasz Stańko
, Polish trumpeter and composer (b.
1942
)
Nikolai Volkoff
, Croatian professional wrestler (b.
1947
)
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
Mary Carlisle
, American actress (b.
1914
)
Rick Genest
, Canadian fashion model and artist (b.
1985
)
Fakir Musafar
, American performance artist (b.
1930
)
August 2
Bob Berry
, New Zealand dendrologist (b.
1916
)
Winston Ntshona
, South African playwright and actor (b.
1941
)
August 3
–
Moshé Mizrahi
, Israeli film director (b.
1931
)
August 4
–
Masahiko Tsugawa
, Japanese actor and director (b.
1940
)
August 5
Charlotte Rae
, American actress and singer (b.
1926
)
Piotr Szulkin
, Polish film director and writer (b.
1950
)
August 6
Paul Laxalt
, American politician (b.
1922
)
Joël Robuchon
, French chef and restaurateur (b.
1945
)
August 7
M. Karunanidhi
, Indian politician (b.
1924
)
Stan Mikita
, Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1940
)
August 8
–
Nicholas Bett
, Kenyan track and field athlete (b.
1990
)
August 10
–
László Fábián
, Hungarian sprint canoeist (b.
1936
)
August 11
Terry A. Davis
, American computer programmer (b.
1969
)
V. S. Naipaul
, Trinidadian-British Nobel writer (b.
1932
)
August 12
–
Samir Amin
, Egyptian-French Marxian economist (b.
1931
)
August 13
Somnath Chatterjee
, Indian politician (b.
1929
)
Unshō Ishizuka
, Japanese voice actor (b.
1951
)
Jim Neidhart
, American professional wrestler (b.
1955
)
August 14
–
Eduard Uspensky
, Russian author and screenwriter (b.
1937
)
August 15
–
Rita Borsellino
, Italian anti-
Mafia
activist and politician (b.
1945
)
August 16
Aretha Franklin
, American singer-songwriter (b.
1942
)
Kim Yong-chun
, North Korean military officer and politician (b.
1936
)
Yelena Shushunova
, Russian gymnast (b.
1969
)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
, 10th
Prime Minister of India
(b.
1924
)
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
Uri Avnery
, Israeli peace activist and politician (b.
1923
)
Jimmy McIlroy
, Northern Irish footballer (b.
1931
)
Brian Murray
, South African actor and director (b.
1937
)
Eddie Willis
, American musician (b.
1936
)
August 21
Barbara Harris
, American actress and singer (b.
1935
)
Hanna Mina
, Syrian novelist (b.
1924
)
Stefán Karl Stefánsson
, Icelandic actor and singer (b.
1975
)
August 22
–
Ed King
, American musician (b.
1949
)
August 23
Kuldip Nayar
, Indian journalist and politician (b.
1923
)
George Walker
, American composer (b.
1922
)
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
Joseph Kobzon
, Soviet and Russian singer (b.
1937
)
Ray
, Hong Kong professional wrestler (b.
1982
)
Marie Severin
, American comics artist and colorist (b.
1929
)
August 31
Susan Brown
, American actress (b.
1932
)
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
, Italian population geneticist (b.
1922
)
Gloria Jean
, American actress and singer (b.
1926
)
Carole Shelley
, American actress (b.
1939
)
Alexander Zakharchenko
, Ukrainian separatist rebel (b.
1976
)
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
Lydia Clarke
, American actress and photographer (b.
1923
)
Jalaluddin Haqqani
, Afghan Haqqani insurgent (b.
1939
)
Jacqueline Pearce
, British actress (b.
1943
)
September 4
Bill Daily
, American actor (b.
1927
)
Christopher Lawford
, American actor (b.
1955
)
September 5
–
Bhagwatikumar Sharma
, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b.
1934
)
September 6
Richard DeVos
, American businessman (b.
1926
)
Liz Fraser
, English actress (b.
1930
)
Burt Reynolds
, American actor (b.
1936
)
Claudio Scimone
, Italian conductor (b.
1934
)
September 7
Samuel Bodman
, American politician (b.
1938
)
Mac Miller
, American rapper (b.
1992
)
September 8
Gennadi Gagulia
,
Prime Minister of Abkhazia
(b.
1948
)
Chelsi Smith
, American singer and beauty pageant winner (b.
1973
)
September 9
–
Frank Andersson
, Swedish wrestler (b.
1956
)
September 10
–
Peter Donat
, Canadian-American actor (b.
1928
)
September 11
Fenella Fielding
, English actress (b.
1927
)
Kulsoom Nawaz
, First Lady of Pakistan (b.
1950
)
September 12
–
Rachid Taha
, Algerian singer and activist (b.
1958
)
September 14
–
Anneke Grönloh
, Dutch singer (b.
1942
)
September 15
Warwick Estevam Kerr
, Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader (b.
1922
)
Dudley Sutton
, English actor (b.
1933
)
September 16
–
Kevin Beattie
, English footballer (b.
1953
)
September 18
–
Robert Venturi
, American architect (b.
1925
)
September 19
Győző Kulcsár
, Hungarian Olympic fencer (b.
1940
)
Arthur Mitchell
, American ballet dancer and choreographer (b.
1934
)
September 20
–
Mohammed Karim Lamrani
, 7th
Prime Minister of Morocco
(b.
1919
)
September 21
Vitaliy Masol
, 3rd
Prime Minister of Ukraine
(b.
1928
)
Trần Đại Quang
, 8th
President of Vietnam
(b.
1956
)
September 22
–
Al Matthews
, American actor and singer (b.
1942
)
September 23
Charles K. Kao
, Hong-Kong-born British-American Nobel electrical engineer (b.
1933
)
Gary Kurtz
, American film producer (b.
1940
)
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
Charles Aznavour
, French-Armenian singer (b.
1924
)
Đỗ Mười
, 3rd
Prime Minister of Vietnam
(b.
1917
)
October 2
Geoff Emerick
, English recording engineer (b.
1945
)
Jamal Khashoggi
, Saudi journalist (b.
1958
)
October 3
–
Leon M. Lederman
, American Nobel physicist (b.
1922
)
October 4
Hamiet Bluiett
, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1940
)
Will Vinton
, American animator (b.
1947
)
Audrey Wells
, American screenwriter, director, and producer (b.
1960
)
October 6
Montserrat Caballé
, Spanish soprano (b.
1933
)
James Cowan
, Australian author (b.
1942
)
Scott Wilson
, American actor (b.
1942
)
October 7
Peggy McCay
, American actress (b.
1927
)
Celeste Yarnall
, American actress (b.
1944
)
October 8
Arnold Kopelson
, American film producer (b.
1935
)
George Taliaferro
, American football player (b.
1927
)
October 9
Thomas A. Steitz
, American Nobel biochemist (b.
1940
)
Venantino Venantini
, Italian actor (b.
1930
)
October 10
Mary Midgley
, British philosopher (b.
1919
)
Tex Winter
, American football player and coach (b.
1922
)
October 11
Paul Andreu
, French architect (b.
1938
)
Labinot Harbuzi
, Swedish footballer (b.
1986
)
Greg Stafford
, American game designer (b.
1948
)
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
Paul Allen
, American businessman, co-founder of
Microsoft
(b.
1953
)
Arto Paasilinna
, Finnish writer (b.
1942
)
October 17
–
Ara Güler
, Turkish-Armenian photojournalist (b.
1928
)
October 18
Ayub Bachchu
, Bangladeshi singer and songwriter (b.
1962
)
Anthea Bell
, British literary translator (b.
1936
)
Lisbeth Palme
, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of
UNICEF
(b.
1931
)
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab
, 5th
President of the Sudan
(b.
1934
)
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
Freddie Hart
, American country singer and songwriter (b.
1926
)
Ntozake Shange
, American playwright and poet (b.
1948
)
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
, Thai businessman (b.
1958
)
October 30
Whitey Bulger
, American mobster (b.
1929
)
Erika Mahringer
, Austrian alpine skier (b.
1924
)
Sangharakshita
, English Buddhist teacher and writer (b.
1925
)
Jin Yong
, Hong Kong writer (b.
1924
)
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
Raymond Chow
, Hong Kong film producer (b.
1927
)
Roy Hargrove
, American jazz trumpeter (b.
1969
)
Kitty O'Neil
, American stuntwoman and racer (b.
1946
)
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
Stan Lee
, American comic book writer, editor and actor (b.
1922
)
David Pearson
, American race car driver (b.
1934
)
November 13
Lucho Gatica
, Chilean singer (b.
1928
)
Katherine MacGregor
, American actress (b.
1925
)
November 14
Rolf Hoppe
, German actor (b.
1930
)
Fernando del Paso
, Mexican writer (b.
1935
)
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
James H. Billington
, American academic (b.
1929
)
Aaron Klug
, Lithuanian-English Nobel chemist (b.
1926
)
Eimuntas Nekrošius
, Lithuanian theatre director (b.
1952
)
November 21
Meena Alexander
, Indian-born American poet (b.
1951
)
Olivia Hooker
, American psychologist and civil rights figure (b.
1915
)
November 22
Soslan Andiyev
, Russian wrestler (b.
1952
)
Andrzej Fischer
, Polish footballer (b.
1952
)
Willie Naulls
, American basketball player (b.
1934
)
November 23
–
Nicolas Roeg
, British film director (b.
1928
)
November 24
–
Ricky Jay
, American magician and actor (b.
1946
)
November 25
Giuliana Calandra
, Italian actress (b.
1936
)
Viktor Kanevskyi
, Ukrainian footballer (b.
1936
)
November 26
Bernardo Bertolucci
, Italian film director and screenwriter (b.
1941
)
Stephen Hillenburg
, American cartoonist, animator, and marine biology teacher (b.
1961
)
November 28
Nicanor de Carvalho
, Brazilian football manager (b.
1947
)
Robert Morris
, American sculptor (b.
1931
)
Harry Leslie Smith
, British writer and activist (b.
1923
)
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
December 1
Ken Berry
, American actor (b.
1933
)
Ennio Fantastichini
, Italian actor (b.
1955
)
December 3
Markus Beyer
, German boxer (b.
1971
)
Andrei Bitov
, Russian writer (b.
1937
)
Philip Bosco
, American actor (b.
1930
)
Geoff Murphy
, New Zealand film director (b.
1938
)
Josep Lluís Núñez
, Spanish businessman and 35th
President of FC Barcelona
(b.
1931
)
December 5
–
Dynamite Kid
, English professional wrestler (b.
1958
)
December 6
Larry Hennig
, American professional wrestler (b.
1936
)
Joseph Joffo
, French author (b.
1931
)
Pete Shelley
, English singer-songwriter (b.
1955
)
December 7
Belisario Betancur
, 26th
President of Colombia
(b.
1923
)
Luigi Radice
, Italian football player and manager (b.
1935
)
December 8
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
, Russian historian and human rights activist (b.
1927
)
Evelyn Berezin
, American computer designer (b.
1925
)
December 9
William Blum
, American author and historian (b.
1933
)
Riccardo Giacconi
, Italian-born American Nobel
astrophysicist
(b.
1931
)
December 12
Iraj Danaeifard
, Iranian footballer (b.
1951
)
Ferenc Kósa
, Hungarian film director (b.
1937
)
December 13
–
Nancy Wilson
, American singer and actress (b.
1937
)
December 15
–
Girma Wolde-Giorgis
, 2nd
President of Ethiopia
(b.
1924
)
December 17
Penny Marshall
, American actress and film director (b.
1943
)
Andrey Shcharbakow
, Belarusian footballer (b.
1991
)
December 18
David C. H. Austin
, English rose breeder (b.
1926
)
Tulsi Giri
, 23rd
Prime Minister of Nepal
(b.
1926
)
Kazimierz Kutz
, Polish film director and politician (b.
1929
)
Shinobu Sekine
, Japanese Olympic judoka (b.
1943
)
Bill Slater
, English footballer (b.
1927
)
December 20
–
Donald Moffat
, English-American actor (b.
1930
)
December 22
Paddy Ashdown
, British politician and diplomat (b.
1941
)
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
, Saudi royal and politician (b.
1931
)
Roberto Suazo Córdova
, 29th
President of Honduras
(b.
1927
)
December 23
–
Elias M. Stein
, American mathematician (b.
1931
)
December 24
Jozef Adamec
, Slovakian footballer and manager (b.
1942
)
Stanko Poklepović
, Croatian footballer and manager (b.
1938
)
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
, Iranian cleric and politician (b.
1948
)
December 25
–
Nancy Roman
, American astronomer (b.
1925
)
December 26
Wendy Beckett
, British religious sister and art historian (b.
1930
)
Roy J. Glauber
, American Nobel physicist (b.
1925
)
Lawrence Roberts
, American computer scientist (b.
1937
)
Morton Sobell
, American engineer and spy (b.
1917
)
December 27
Juan Bautista Agüero
, Paraguayan footballer (b.
1935
)
Robert Kerman
, American actor (b.
1947
)
Richard Arvin Overton
, American war veteran (b.
1906
)
December 28
Abdelmalek Benhabyles
, Acting
President of Algeria
(b.
1921
)
Toshiko Fujita
, Japanese actress (b.
1950
)
Peter Hill-Wood
, English businessman and football executive (b.
1936
)
Georges Loinger
, French resistance fighter (b.
1910
)
Amos Oz
, Israeli author and journalist (b.
1939
)
Shehu Shagari
, 6th
President of Nigeria
(b.
1925
)
June Whitfield
, English actress (b.
1925
)
December 29
Ringo Lam
, Hong Kong film director (b.
1955
)
Rosenda Monteros
, Mexican actress (b.
1935
)
December 30
Edgar Hilsenrath
, German writer (b.
1926
)
Don Lusk
, American animator (b.
1913
)
Mrinal Sen
, Indian film director (b.
1923
)
December 31
–
Kader Khan
, Indian actor (b.
1937
)
2019:
List
January
Bob Einstein
Carol Channing
Henry Sy
Emiliano Sala
George Fernandes
January 1
–
Ivan Dimitrov
, Bulgarian footballer (b.
1935
)
January 2
Daryl Dragon
, American musician (b.
1942
)
Bob Einstein
, American actor and comedian (b.
1942
)
Gene Okerlund
, American wrestling announcer (b.
1942
)
January 4
–
Harold Brown
, 14th
United States Secretary of Defense
(b.
1927
)
January 5
–
Dragoslav Šekularac
, Serbian footballer and manager (b.
1937
)
January 6
José Ramón Fernández
, Cuban revolution leader (b.
1923
)
W. Morgan Sheppard
, English actor (b.
1932
)
January 7
–
Moshe Arens
, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and politician (b.
1925
)
January 9
Verna Bloom
, American actress (b.
1939
)
Paul Koslo
, German-Canadian actor (b.
1944
)
Anatoly Lukyanov
, Russian politician (b.
1930
)
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
John C. Bogle
, American investor (b.
1929
)
Mirjam Pressler
, German novelist (b.
1940
)
January 17
Babiker Awadalla
, 8th
Prime Minister of Sudan
(b.
1917
)
Windsor Davies
, Welsh actor (b.
1930
)
Mary Oliver
, American poet (b.
1935
)
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
Kaye Ballard
, American actress (b.
1925
)
Henri, Count of Paris
, Head of the House of Orléans (b.
1933
)
Pedro Manfredini
, Argentine footballer (b.
1935
)
Emiliano Sala
, Argentine footballer (b.
1990
)
Shivakumara Swami
, Indian spiritual leader (b.
1907
)
Harris Wofford
, American politician and civil rights activist (b.
1926
)
January 23
Jonas Mekas
, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (b.
1922
)
Oliver Mtukudzi
, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, and philanthropist (b.
1952
)
Erik Olin Wright
, American Marxist sociologist (b.
1947
)
January 24
–
Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
, Spanish cardinal (b.
1929
)
January 25
Florence Knoll
, American architect and furniture designer (b.
1917
)
Dušan Makavejev
, Serbian film director (b.
1932
)
Krishna Sobti
, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (b.
1925
)
January 26
Jean Guillou
, French composer, organist, and pianist (b.
1930
)
Michel Legrand
, French composer (b.
1932
)
January 29
George Fernandes
, Indian politician (b.
1930
)
James Ingram
, American R&B musician (b.
1952
)
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
Jeremy Hardy
, English comedian, radio host and panelist (b.
1961
)
Clive Swift
, English actor (b.
1936
)
February 2
–
Carol Emshwiller
, American author (b.
1921
)
February 3
Julie Adams
, American actress (b.
1926
)
Detsl
, Russian musician (b.
1983
)
Kristoff St. John
, American actor (b.
1966
)
February 4
Isacio Calleja
, Spanish footballer (b.
1936
)
Bernard Lietaer
, Belgian engineer and economist (b.
1942
)
John Otho Marsh Jr.
, 14th
United States Secretary of the Army
(b.
1926
)
Matti Nykänen
, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b.
1963
)
Leonie Ossowski
, German writer (b.
1925
)
February 5
–
Václav Vorlíček
, Czech film director (b.
1930
)
February 6
Rudi Assauer
, German footballer and manager (b.
1944
)
Manfred Eigen
, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b.
1927
)
Rosamunde Pilcher
, English author (b.
1924
)
February 7
John Dingell
, American politician (b.
1926
)
Albert Finney
, English actor (b.
1936
)
Rocky Lockridge
, American boxer (b.
1959
)
Jan Olszewski
, 3rd
Prime Minister of Poland
(b.
1930
)
Frank Robinson
, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b.
1935
)
February 8
Walter Munk
, Austrian-American oceanographer (b.
1917
)
Sergei Yursky
, Russian actor (b.
1935
)
February 9
Shelley Lubben
, American author, activist, singer, and pornographic actress (b.
1968
)
Maximilian Reinelt
, German rower and doctor (b.
1988
)
Tomi Ungerer
, French artist, illustrator and writer (b.
1931
)
February 10
Carmen Argenziano
, American actor (b.
1943
)
Jan-Michael Vincent
, American actor (b.
1945
)
February 11
–
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi
, Afghani politician (b.
1925
)
February 12
Gordon Banks
, English footballer (b.
1937
)
Lyndon LaRouche
, American political activist (b.
1922
)
Pedro Morales
, Puerto Rican professional wrestler (b.
1942
)
February 14
–
Andrea Levy
, English novelist (b.
1956
)
February 15
–
Lee Radziwill
, American socialite (b.
1933
)
February 16
Don Bragg
, American pole vaulter (b.
1935
)
Bruno Ganz
, Swiss actor (b.
1941
)
Li Rui
, Chinese politician, historian. and dissident (b.
1917
)
February 17
–
Šaban Šaulić
, Serbian singer (b.
1951
)
February 18
Wallace Smith Broecker
, American geophysicist (b.
1931
)
Alessandro Mendini
, Italian architect and designer (b.
1931
)
February 19
–
Karl Lagerfeld
, German fashion designer (b.
1933
)
February 20
Dominick Argento
, American composer (b.
1927
)
Claude Goretta
, Swiss film director (b.
1929
)
February 21
Stanley Donen
, American film director (b.
1924
)
Peter Tork
, American musician and actor (b.
1942
)
Hilde Zadek
, German operatic soprano (b.
1917
)
February 22
Brody Stevens
, American comedian and actor (b.
1970
)
Morgan Woodward
, American actor (b.
1925
)
February 23
–
Katherine Helmond
, American actress (b.
1929
)
February 24
Antoine Gizenga
, 21st
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(b.
1925
)
Donald Keene
, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, and writer (b.
1922
)
February 25
Janet Asimov
, American science fiction writer, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst (b.
1926
)
Mark Hollis
, English singer-songwriter (b.
1955
)
Waldo Machado
, Brazilian footballer (b.
1934
)
Lisa Sheridan
, American actress (b.
1974
)
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
Zhores Alferov
, Soviet and Russian Nobel physicist (b.
1930
)
Kevin Roche
, Irish-American architect (b.
1922
)
March 2
–
Med Hondo
, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b.
1936
)
March 4
King Kong Bundy
, American professional wrestler (b.
1955
)
Keith Flint
, English musician, singer, and dancer (b.
1969
)
Klaus Kinkel
, German politician (b.
1936
)
Ted Lindsay
, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b.
1925
)
Luke Perry
, American actor (b.
1966
)
March 5
–
Jacques Loussier
, French pianist and composer (b.
1934
)
March 6
–
Carolee Schneemann
, American visual artist (b.
1939
)
March 7
Kelly Catlin
, American professional racing cyclist (b.
1995
)
Guillaume Faye
, French journalist and writer (b.
1949
)
March 8
–
Michael Gielen
, Austrian conductor and composer (b.
1927
)
March 9
Bernard Binlin Dadié
, Ivorian novelist and playwright (b.
1916
)
Vladimir Etush
, Soviet and Russian actor (b.
1922
)
March 10
–
İrsen Küçük
, Cypriot politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus
(b.
1940
)
March 11
Hal Blaine
, American drummer (b.
1929
)
Coutinho
, Brazilian football player and manager (b.
1943
)
March 13
–
Andrea Pollack
, German swimmer (b.
1961
)
March 14
Birch Bayh
, American politician (b.
1928
)
Godfried Danneels
, Belgian cardinal (b.
1933
)
Charlie Whiting
, British motorsports director (b.
1952
)
March 15
Okwui Enwezor
, Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator (b.
1963
)
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly
, 3rd
Head of State of Mauritania
(b.
1943
)
W. S. Merwin
, American poet (b.
1927
)
March 16
Dick Dale
, American guitarist and surf music pioneer (b.
1937
)
Barbara Hammer
, American filmmaker (b.
1939
)
Alan Krueger
, American economist (b.
1960
)
March 17
–
Manohar Parrikar
, Indian politician (b.
1955
)
March 19
–
Marlen Khutsiev
, Georgian-Russian filmaker (b.
1925
)
March 20
Donald Kalpokas
, Vanuatuan politician, 2nd
Prime Minister of Vanuatu
(b.
1943
)
Mary Warnock
, English philosopher (b.
1924
)
March 22
Frans Andriessen
, Dutch politician (b.
1929
)
Scott Walker
, American-English singer-songwriter (b.
1943
)
March 23
Larry Cohen
, American film director, producer and screenwriter (b.
1936
)
Rafi Eitan
, Israeli intelligence officer and politician (b.
1926
)
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
Vonda N. McIntyre
, American science fiction author (b.
1948
)
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
, Spanish writer (b.
1927
)
April 2
–
Jamshid Mashayekhi
, Iranian actor (b.
1934
)
April 4
–
Georgiy Daneliya
, Russian film director and screenwriter (b.
1930
)
April 5
Sydney Brenner
, South African Nobel biologist (b.
1927
)
Gianfranco Leoncini
, Italian footballer (b.
1939
)
April 6
Fritz Hollings
, American politician (b.
1922
)
David J. Thouless
, British Nobel physicist (b.
1934
)
April 7
–
Seymour Cassel
, American actor (b.
1935
)
April 9
Elwyn Berlekamp
, American mathematician (b.
1940
)
Charles Van Doren
, American writer and editor (b.
1926
)
April 10
–
Earl Thomas Conley
, American country singer-songwriter (b.
1941
)
April 12
Georgia Engel
, American actress (b.
1947
)
Tommy Smith
, English footballer (b.
1945
)
April 13
Tony Buzan
, English author and educational consultant (b.
1942
)
Neus Català
, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor (b.
1915
)
Paul Greengard
, American Nobel neuroscientist (b.
1925
)
Lydia Wideman
, Finnish cross-country skier (b.
1920
)
Yvette Williams
, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (b.
1929
)
April 14
Bibi Andersson
, Swedish actress (b.
1935
)
Mirjana Marković
, Serbian politician, 3rd First Lady of
Yugoslavia
(b.
1942
)
Gene Wolfe
, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b.
1931
)
April 15
–
Owen Garriott
, American astronaut (b.
1930
)
April 16
Jörg Demus
, Austrian pianist (b.
1928
)
David Lama
, Austrian sports climber and mountaineer (b.
1990
)
Fay McKenzie
, American actress and singer (b.
1918
)
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
Hannelore Elsner
, German actress (b.
1942
)
Ken Kercheval
, American actor (b.
1935
)
April 22
Lê Đức Anh
, 4th
President of Vietnam
(b.
1920
)
Billy McNeill
, Scottish football player and manager (b.
1940
)
April 23
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
, Luxembourgish royal (b.
1921
)
David Winters
, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (b.
1939
)
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
Richard Lugar
, American politician (b.
1932
)
John Singleton
, American film director (b.
1968
)
April 29
Les Murray
, Australian poet (b.
1938
)
Josef Šural
, Czech footballer (b.
1990
)
April 30
Anémone
, French actress, filmmaker and political activist (b.
1950
)
Beth Carvalho
, Brazilian samba singer. (b.
1946
)
Peter Mayhew
, English-American actor (b.
1944
)
May
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Doris Day
Bob Hawke
Niki Lauda
Murray Gell-Mann
May 1
–
Dinko Dermendzhiev
, Bulgarian footballer (b.
1941
)
May 2
Red Kelly
, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b.
1927
)
Ali Mroudjaé
, Comorian politician, 9th
Prime Minister of the Comoros
(b.
1939
)
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
Sprent Dabwido
, Nauruan politician, 13th
President of Nauru
(b.
1972
)
Yevgeny Krylatov
, Soviet and Russian composer (b.
1934
)
May 9
–
Alvin Sargent
, American screenwriter (b.
1927
)
May 10
–
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
, Spanish politician (b.
1951
)
May 11
Gianni De Michelis
, Italian politician (b.
1940
)
Peggy Lipton
, American actress and model (b.
1946
)
Pua Magasiva
, New Zealand actor (b.
1980
)
Silver King
, Mexican professional wrestler (b.
1968
)
May 12
Machiko Kyō
, Japanese actress (b.
1924
)
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch (b.
1920
)
May 13
–
Doris Day
, American actress and singer (b.
1922
)
May 14
Tim Conway
, American actor and comedian (b.
1933
)
Grumpy Cat
, American
internet celebrity
cat
(b.
2012
)
Sven Lindqvist
, Swedish author (b.
1932
)
May 16
Bob Hawke
, Australian politician, 23rd
Prime Minister of Australia
(b.
1929
)
Ashley Massaro
, American professional wrestler and model (b.
1979
)
I. M. Pei
, Chinese-American architect (b.
1917
)
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
Judith Kerr
, German-born British author and illustrator (b.
1923
)
Eduard Punset
, Spanish politician and science popularizer (b.
1936
)
Ahmad Shah of Pahang
, Malaysian royal (b.
1930
)
May 24
–
Murray Gell-Mann
, American physicist (b.
1929
)
May 25
–
Claus von Bülow
, Danish-British socialite (b.
1926
)
May 26
Bart Starr
, American football player and coach (b.
1934
)
Prem Tinsulanonda
, Thai politician, 16th
Prime Minister of Thailand
(b.
1920
)
May 27
–
Bill Buckner
, American baseball player (b.
1949
)
May 28
Apolo Nsibambi
, Ugandan politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Uganda
(b.
1940
)
Edward Seaga
, Jamaican politician, 5th
Prime Minister of Jamaica
(b.
1930
)
May 30
Thad Cochran
, American politician (b.
1937
)
Frank Lucas
, American drug trafficker (b.
1930
)
Leon Redbone
, Cypriot-American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (b.
1949
)
May 31
–
Roky Erickson
, American singer-songwriter (b.
1947
)
June
José Antonio Reyes
Dr. John
Franco Zeffirelli
Mohamed Morsi
Gloria Vanderbilt
June 1
José Antonio Reyes
, Spanish footballer (b.
1983
)
Michel Serres
, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b.
1930
)
Ani Yudhoyono
, Indonesian politician, 6th
First Lady of Indonesia
(b.
1952
)
June 2
–
Ken Matthews
, English race walker (b.
1934
)
June 3
Atsushi Aoki
, Japanese professional wrestler (b.
1977
)
Jurica Jerković
, Croatian footballer (b.
1950
)
June 4
Lennart Johansson
, Swedish sports official (b.
1929
)
Nechama Rivlin
, Israeli socialite, 10th
First lady
of
Israel
(b.
1945
)
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
Girish Karnad
, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (b.
1938
)
Lee Hee-ho
, South Korean peace activist, 15th
First Lady of South Korea
(b.
1922
)
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
Mohamed Morsi
, Egyptian politician, 5th
President of Egypt
(b.
1951
)
Gloria Vanderbilt
, American socialite, artist and fashion designer (b.
1924
)
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
Miguel Ángel Falasca
, Argentine-Spanish volleyball player and coach (b.
1973
)
Judith Krantz
, American novelist (b.
1928
)
Thalles
, Brazilian footballer (b.
1995
)
June 23
Dave Bartholomew
, American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer (b.
1918
)
George Rosenkranz
, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (b.
1916
)
June 24
–
Billy Drago
, American actor (b.
1945
)
June 25
–
Isabel Sarli
, Argentine actress and model (b.
1929
)
June 26
Édith Scob
, French actress (b.
1937
)
Max Wright
, American actor (b.
1943
)
June 29
Jeon Mi-seon
, South Korean actress (b.
1970
)
Guillermo Mordillo
, Argentine cartoonist (b.
1932
)
June 30
Momir Bulatović
, Montenegrin politician, 1st
President of Montenegro
(b.
1956
)
Mitchell Feigenbaum
, American mathematical physicist (b.
1944
)
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
Eduardo Fajardo
, Spanish actor (b.
1924
)
Arturo Fernández Rodríguez
, Spanish actor (b.
1929
)
Eva Mozes Kor
, Romanian Holocaust survivor and author (b.
1934
)
Pierre Lhomme
, French cinematographer (b.
1930
)
July 6
Cameron Boyce
, American actor (b.
1999
)
João Gilberto
, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b.
1931
)
July 7
–
Artur Brauner
, Polish-German film producer and entrepreneur (b.
1918
)
July 9
Freddie Jones
, English actor (b.
1927
)
Ross Perot
, American businessman and politician (b.
1930
)
Fernando de la Rúa
, 43rd
President of Argentina
(b.
1937
)
Rip Torn
, American actor (b.
1931
)
July 10
Valentina Cortese
, Italian actress (b.
1923
)
Denise Nickerson
, American actress (b.
1957
)
July 12
Fernando J. Corbató
, American computer scientist (b.
1926
)
Claudio Naranjo
, Chilean psychiatrist (b.
1932
)
July 13
–
Paolo Sardi
, Italian cardinal (b.
1934
)
July 14
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
, 11th
President of Bangladesh
(b.
1930
)
Pernell Whitaker
, American boxer (b.
1964
)
July 16
Johnny Clegg
, South African musician and anthropologist (b.
1953
)
John Paul Stevens
, American judge,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
(b.
1920
)
July 17
–
Andrea Camilleri
, Italian writer (b.
1925
)
July 18
Yukiya Amano
, Japanese diplomat (b.
1947
)
David Hedison
, American actor (b.
1927
)
July 19
Rutger Hauer
, Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist (b.
1944
)
Ágnes Heller
, Hungarian philosopher (b.
1929
)
César Pelli
, Argentine-American architect (b.
1926
)
July 20
–
Sheila Dikshit
, Indian politician (b.
1938
)
July 21
–
José Manuel Estepa Llaurens
, Spanish cardinal (b.
1926
)
July 22
Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
, American aerospace engineer (b.
1924
)
Li Peng
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–
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and 18th
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1934
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July 29
–
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July 31
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August
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August 3
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1932
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Thomas Remengesau Sr.
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Vice President of Palau
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1929
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1940
)
August 4
–
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Prime Minister of Cambodia
(b.
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August 5
–
Toni Morrison
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1931
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August 6
–
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1952
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August 7
–
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August 8
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1929
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August 9
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1938
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1939
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August 10
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1953
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August 11
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1982
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Sergio Obeso Rivera
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August 12
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1956
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August 16
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1940
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1942
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José Nápoles
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1940
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Richard Williams
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1933
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August 17
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1982
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Jacques Diouf
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1938
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August 19
–
Larry Taylor
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1942
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August 21
–
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Queen consort of Jordan
(b.
1929
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August 22
–
Junior Agogo
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1979
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August 23
David Koch
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1940
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Egon Zimmermann
, Austrian ski racer (b.
1939
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August 24
Arun Jaitley
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1952
)
Blanca Fernández Ochoa
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1963
)
August 25
–
Ferdinand Piëch
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1937
)
August 26
–
Pal Benko
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1928
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August 27
–
Dawda Jawara
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President of the Gambia
(b.
1924
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August 28
Michel Aumont
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August 29
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August 30
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1941
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Valerie Harper
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August 31
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September
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B. J. Habibie
Eddie Money
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Jacques Chirac
September 2
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1934
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September 3
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Peter Lindbergh
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1944
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1940
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September 8
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September 9
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September 11
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President of Chad
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President of the Marshall Islands
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Fernando Ricksen
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1976
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September 19
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
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and 2nd
President of Tunisia
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1936
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Charles Gérard
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Bert Hellinger
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Barron Hilton
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1927
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Sid Haig
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Günter Kunert
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September 22
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Robert Hunter
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September 26
Jacques Chirac
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and 22nd
President of France
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William Levada
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Gennady Manakov
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1950
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José José
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Mark Zakharov
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September 30
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October
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Alexei Leonov
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October 1
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1939
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Miguel León-Portilla
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October 2
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1935
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Isaac Promise
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1987
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October 3
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Diogo Freitas do Amaral
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Prime Minister of Portugal
(b.
1941
)
October 4
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Diahann Carroll
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October 6
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1939
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Martin Lauer
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Rip Taylor
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October 9
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October 10
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October 11
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1941
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Alexei Leonov
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October 12
Sara Danius
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1962
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Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
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October 13
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October 14
Harold Bloom
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Sulli
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October 15
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Tamara Buciuceanu
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1929
)
October 16
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John Tate
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1925
)
October 17
Alicia Alonso
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1920
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Elijah Cummings
, American politician and civil rights advocate (b.
1951
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Bill Macy
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Göran Malmqvist
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October 18
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1952
)
October 19
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Alexander Volkov
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1967
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October 21
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Prime Minister of South Korea
(b.
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)
October 22
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Marieke Vervoort
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1979
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October 26
Enriqueta Basilio
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Robert Evans
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1930
)
October 27
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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ISIL
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Vladimir Bukovsky
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John Conyers
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October 28
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Kay Hagan
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1953
)
October 29
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John Witherspoon
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1943
)
November
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Raymond Poulidor
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Goo Hara
Yasuhiro Nakasone
November 2
Norbert Eder
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1955
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Sigvard Ericsson
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1930
)
Phillip E. Johnson
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1940
)
Marie Laforêt
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1939
)
November 4
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Jacques Dupont
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1928
)
November 5
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Omero Antonutti
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1935
)
November 6
–
Jan Stráský
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Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
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1940
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November 7
Remo Bodei
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Leo Klejn
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1927
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Margarita Salas
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1938
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1933
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1948
)
November 11
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Premier of the Virgin Islands
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November 12
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November 13
Kieran Modra
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Raymond Poulidor
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1936
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November 14
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Branko Lustig
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1932
)
November 15
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Harrison Dillard
, American track and field athlete (b.
1923
)
November 16
–
John Campbell Brown
, Scottish astronomer (b.
1947
)
November 17
–
Adnan Pachachi
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Prime Minister
(b.
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)
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
Yaşar Büyükanıt
, Turkish military officer (b.
1940
)
Jean Douchet
, French film director, historian, and film critic (b.
1929
)
Michael J. Pollard
, American actor (b.
1939
)
November 22
Eugène Camara
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Prime Minister of Guinea
(b.
1942
)
Bowen Stassforth
, American swimmer (b.
1926
)
November 23
–
Asunción Balaguer
, Spanish actress (b.
1925
)
November 24
–
Goo Hara
, South Korean singer and actress (b.
1991
)
November 26
Ken Kavanagh
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1923
)
Köbi Kuhn
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1943
)
November 27
Godfrey Gao
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1984
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Jaegwon Kim
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1934
)
Jonathan Miller
, English actor, director, author, humorist, and medical doctor (b.
1934
)
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
D. C. Fontana
, American television writer (b.
1939
)
Francesco Janich
, Italian footballer (b.
1937
)
December 4
Rosa Morena
, Spanish flamenco-pop singer and actress (b.
1941
)
Tetsu Nakamura
, Japanese-Afghan physician (b.
1946
)
Bob Willis
, English cricketer (b.
1949
)
December 5
–
Robert Walker
, American actor (b.
1940
)
December 6
Ron Leibman
, American actor (b.
1937
)
Stoyanka Mutafova
, Bulgarian actress (b.
1922
)
December 7
Reinhard Bonnke
, German Pentecostal evangelist (b.
1940
)
Zaza Urushadze
, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (b.
1965
)
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
Marie Fredriksson
, Swedish singer and songwriter (b.
1958
)
Imre Varga
, Hungarian sculptor (b.
1923
)
December 10
Gershon Kingsley
, German-American composer (b.
1922
)
Yury Luzhkov
, Russian politician (b.
1936
)
December 11
–
David Bellamy
, English naturalist and author (b.
1933
)
December 12
Danny Aiello
, American actor (b.
1933
)
Jorge Hernández
, Cuban boxer (b.
1954
)
Peter Snell
, New Zealand middle-distance runner (b.
1938
)
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
Roland Matthes
, German swimmer (b.
1950
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Marko Orlandić
, 10th
President of Montenegro
(b.
1930
)
December 21
–
Martin Peters
, English footballer and manager (b.
1943
)
December 22
Tony Britton
, English actor (b.
1924
)
Ram Dass
, American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (b.
1931
)
Emanuel Ungaro
, French fashion designer (b.
1933
)
December 23
–
Mustafa Mujezinović
, 7th
Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(b.
1954
)
December 25
Ari Behn
, Norwegian author (b.
1972
)
Peter Schreier
, German operatic tenor and conductor (b.
1935
)
December 26
Jerry Herman
, American composer (b.
1931
)
Sue Lyon
, American actress (b.
1946
)
Galina Volchek
, Soviet and Russian actress (b.
1933
)
December 27
–
Don Imus
, American radio personality, television show host, and author (b.
1940
)
December 29
Alasdair Gray
, Scottish writer and artist (b.
1934
)
Neil Innes
, English writer, comedian and musician (b.
1944
)
Manfred Stolpe
, German politician (b.
1936
)
December 30
Prosper Grech
, Maltese cardinal (b.
1925
)
Syd Mead
, American concept artist (b.
1933
)
December 31
Serikbolsyn Abdildin
, Kazakh politician and economist (b.
1937
)
Djimrangar Dadnadji
, 16th
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1954
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The Andy Griffith Show
(1960-1968)
The Bear
The Big Bang Theory
(2007-2019)
The Blacklist
(2013-2023)
The Bob Newhart Show
(1972-1978)
The Brady Bunch
(1969-1974)
The Carol Burnett Show
(1967-1978)
The Cleveland Show
(2009-2013)
The Conners
The Cosby Show
(1984-1992)
The Crown
(2016-2023)
The Dean Martin Show
(1965-1974)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
(1961-1965)
The Doris Day Show
(1968-1973)
The Dukes of Hazzard
(1979-1985)
The Expanse
(2015-2022)
The F.B.I.
(1965-1974)
The Flintstones
(1960-1966)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
(1990-1996)
The Goldbergs
(2013-2023)
The Golden Girls
(1985-1992)
The Good Wife
(2009-2016)
The Hogan Family
(1986-1991)
The Jamie Foxx Show
(1996-2001)
The Jeffersons
(1975-1985)
The King of Queens
(1998-2007)
The Last of Us
The Love Boat
(1977-1986)
The Mandalorian
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(1970-1977)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
(2017-2023)
The Mentalist
(2008-2015)
The Middle
(2009-2018)
The Mod Squad
(1968-1973)
The Monkees
(1966-1968)
The Odd Couple
(1970-1975)
The Office
(2005-2013)
The Partridge Family
(1970-1974)
The Ranch
(2016-2020)
The Rockford Files
(1974-1980)
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
(1999-2007)
The Vampire Diaries
(2009-2017)
The Walking Dead
(2010-2022)
The Walking Dead: Dead City
The West Wing
(1999-2006)
The Wire
(2002-2008)
The X-Files
(1993-2002)
This Is Us
(2016-2022)
Three's Company
(1977-1984)
True Blood
(2008-2014)
Two and a Half Men
(2003-3015)
24
(2001-2010)
30 Rock
(2006-2013)
90210
(2008-2013)
Under the Dome
(2013-2015)
Veep
(2012-2019)
Veronica Mars
(2004-2007, 2019)
Victorious
(2010-2013)
Vikings
(2013-2020)
Walker, Texas Ranger
(1993-2001)
White Collar
(2009-2014)
Who's the Boss?
(1984-1992)
Will & Grace
(1998-2006) (2017-2020)
Yellowstone
Young Sheldon
(2017-2024)
Z Nation
(2014-2018)
Popular in the 1970's:
List
Mario Adorf
Jack Albertson
(1907-1981)
Dan Aykroyd
Alan Alda
Nancy Allen
Woody Allen
John Amos
Ursula Andress
Julie Andrews
Anne Archer
Alan Arkin
(1934-2023)
Bea Arthur
(1922-2009)
Elizabeth Ashley
Ed Asner
(1929-2021)
Richard Attenborough
(1923-2014)
René Auberjonois
(1940-2019)
Margaret Avery
Amitabh Bachchan
Conrad Bain
(1923-2013)
Martin Balsam
(1919-1996)
Anne Bancroft
(1931-2005)
Adrienne Barbeau
Ned Beatty
(1937-2021)
Warren Beatty
Ed Begley Jr.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(1933-2021)
John Belushi
(1949-1982)
Robby Benson
Candice Bergen
Jane Birkin
(1946-2023)
Jacqueline Bisset
Bill Bixby
(1934-1993)
Karen Black
(1939-2013)
Linda Blair
Dirk Bogarde
(1921-1999)
Ernest Borgnine
(1917-2012)
Tom Bosley
(1927-2010)
Timothy Bottoms
Peter Boyle
(1935-2006)
Marlon Brando
(1924-2004)
Eric Braeden
Eileen Brennan
(1932-2013)
Beau Bridges
Jeff Bridges
James Brolin
Mel Brooks
Charles Bronson
(1921-2003)
Jim Brown
(1936-2023)
Roscoe Lee Browne
(1922-2007)
Yul Brynner
(1920-1985)
Geneviève Bujold
Carol Burnett
Ellen Burstyn
Richard Burton
(1925-1984)
Raymond Burr
(1917-1993)
Gary Busey
James Caan
(1940-2022)
Sid Caesar
(1922-2014)
Michael Caine
Godfrey Cambridge
(1933-1976)
Colleen Camp
John Candy
(1950-1994)
Dyan Cannon
Claudia Cardinale
George Carlin
(1937-2008)
David Carradine
(1936-2009)
Keith Carradine
Diahann Carroll
(1935-2019)
Johnny Carson
(1925-2005)
Lynda Carter
David Cassidy
(1950-2017)
John Cassavetes
(1929-1989)
John Cazale
(1935-1978)
Richard Chamberlain
Geraldine Chaplin
Stockard Channing
Jackie Chan
Chevy Chase
Sonny Chiba
(1939-2021)
Tommy Chong
Julie Christie
Susan Clark
Jill Clayburgh
(1944-2010)
John Cleese
Lee J. Cobb
(1911-1976)
James Coburn
(1928-2002)
James Coco
(1930-1987)
Dabney Coleman
Joan Collins
Sean Connery
(1930-2020)
Mike Connors
(1925-2017)
William Conrad
(1920-1994)
Tim Conway
(1933-2019)
Bill Cosby
Ronny Cox
Richard Crenna
(1926-2003)
Billy Crystal
Jane Curtin
Tony Curtis
(1925-2010)
Peter Cushing
(1913-1994)
Rodney Dangerfield
(1921-2004)
Blythe Danner
Bruce Davison
Dom DeLuise
(1933-2009)
Alain Delon
Catherine Deneuve
Brian Dennehy
(1938-2020)
Robert De Niro
Gérard Depardieu
Bruce Dern
William Devane
Danny DeVito
Joyce DeWitt
Kirk Douglas
(1916-2020)
Michael Douglas
Brad Dourif
David Doyle
(1929-1997)
Richard Dreyfuss
Faye Dunaway
Charles Durning
(1923-2012)
Robert Duvall
Shelly Duvall
Clint Eastwood
Barbara Eden
Britt Ekland
Sam Elliott
Robert Englund
Erik Estrada
Peter Falk
(1927-2011)
Antonio Fargas
Mia Farrow
Farrah Fawcett
(1947-2009)
José Ferrer
Sally Field
Albert Finney
(1936-2019)
Carrie Fisher
(1956-2016)
Louise Fletcher
(1934-2022)
Jane Fonda
Peter Fonda
(1940-2019)
Harrison Ford
Frederic Forrest
(1936-2023)
Robert Forster
(1941-2019)
Jodie Foster
Redd Foxx
(1922-1991)
Anthony Franciosa
(1928-2006)
Morgan Freeman
Vincent Gardenia
(1920-1992)
James Garner
(1928-2014)
Teri Garr
Ben Gazzara
(1930-2012)
Richard Gere
Henry Gibson
(1935-2009)
Terry Gilliam
Paul Michael Glaser
Jeff Goldblum
Louis Gossett Jr.
(1936-2024)
Elliott Gould
Lee Grant
Pam Grier
Merv Griffin
(1925-2007)
Charles Grodin
(1935-2021)
Robert Guillaume
(1927-2017)
Alec Guinness
(1914-2000)
Gene Hackman
Larry Hagman
(1931-2012)
Mark Hamill
Valerie Harper
(1939-2019)
Richard Harris
(1930-2002)
Goldie Hawn
Katherine Helmond
(1929-2019)
Sherman Hemsley
(1938-2012)
Florence Henderson
(1934-2016)
Jim Henson
(1936-1990)
Barbara Hershey
Charlton Heston
(1923-2008)
John Hillerman
(1932-2017)
Judd Hirsch
Dustin Hoffman
Paul Hogan
Hal Holbrook
(1925-2021)
William Holden
(1918-1981)
Ian Holm
(1931-2020)
James Hong
Anthony Hopkins
Dennis Hopper
(1936-2010)
Ron Howard
Susan Howard
Rock Hudson
(1925-1985)
Sammo Hung
John Hurt
(1940-2017)
Eric Idle
Glenda Jackson
(1936-2023)
Kate Jackson
Don Johnson
James Earl Jones
Shirley Jones
Terry Jones
(1942-2020)
Madeline Kahn
(1942-1999)
Carol Kane
Casey Kasem
(1932-2014)
Julie Kavner
Stacy Keach
Diane Keaton
Harvey Keitel
Sally Kellerman
(1937-2022)
George Kennedy
(1925-2016)
Richard Kiel
(1939-2014)
Margot Kidder
(1948-2018)
Sally Kirkland
Jack Klugman
(1922-2012)
Don Knotts
(1924-2006)
Yaphet Kotto
(1939-2021)
Kris Kristofferson
Cheryl Ladd
Diane Ladd
Burt Lancaster
(1913-1994)
Michael Landon
(1936-1991)
Martin Landau
(1928-2017)
Vicki Lawrence
George Lazenby
Cloris Leachman
(1926-2021)
Bruce Lee
(1940-1973)
Christopher Lee
(1922-2015)
Jack Lemmon
(1925-2001)
Jerry Lewis
(1926-2017)
Hal Linden
Christopher Lloyd
Jack Lord
(1920-1998)
Sophia Loren
Shirley MacLaine
Gavin MacLeod
(1931-2021)
Lee Majors
Karl Malden
(1912-2009)
Ann-Margret
Penny Marshall
(1943-2018)
Cheech Marin
Dean Martin
(1917-1995)
Steve Martin
Lee Marvin
(1924-1987)
James Mason
(1909-1984)
Marsha Mason
Marcello Mastroianni
(1924-1996)
Walter Matthau
(1920-2000)
Elaine May
Rue McClanahan
(1934-2010)
Roddy McDowall
(1928-1998)
Malcolm McDowell
Steve McQueen
(1930-1980)
Ian McShane
Anne Meara
(1929-2015)
Burgess Meredith
(1907-1997)
Lee Meriwether
Toshiro Mifune
(1920-1997)
Liza Minnelli
Al Molinaro
(1919-2015)
Ricardo Montalbán
(1920-2009)
Yves Montand
(1921-1991)
Roger Moore
(1927-2017)
Mary Tyler Moore
(1936-2017)
Jeanne Moreau
(1928-2017)
Rita Moreno
Harry Morgan
(1915-2011)
Garrett Morris
Pat Morita
(1932-2005)
Michael Murphy
Bill Murray
Bob Newhart
Paul Newman
(1925-2008)
Olivia Newton-John
(1948-2022)
Denise Nicholas
Jack Nicholson
Leslie Nielsen
(1926-2010)
Nick Nolte
Chuck Norris
Warren Oates
(1928-1982)
Carroll O'Connor
(1924-2001)
Ryan O'Neal
(1941-2023)
Jennifer O'Neill
Peter O'Toole
(1932-2013)
Al Pacino
Michael Palin
Jack Palance
(1919-2006)
Gregory Peck
(1916-2003)
Anthony Perkins
(1932-1992)
Jon Pertwee
(1919-1996)
Mackenzie Phillips
Michelle Phillips
Donald Pleasence
(1919-1995)
Suzanne Pleshette
(1937-2008)
Christopher Plummer
(1929-2021)
Sidney Poitier
(1927-2022)
Richard Pryor
(1940-2005)
Randy Quaid
Kathleen Quinlan
Anthony Quinn
(1915-2001)
Gilda Radner
(1946-1989)
Charlotte Rampling
Tony Randall
(1920-2004)
Robert Redford
Vanessa Redgrave
Oliver Reed
(1938-1999)
Robert Reed
(1932-1992)
Christopher Reeve
(1952-2004)
Rob Reiner
Burt Reynolds
(1936-2018)
Don Rickles
(1926-2017)
John Ritter
(1948-2003)
Joan Rivers
(1933-2014)
Jason Robards
(1922-2000)
Rachel Roberts
(1927-1980)
Cliff Robertson
(1923-2011)
Richard Roundtree
(1942-2023)
Katharine Ross
Marion Ross
Gena Rowlands
Kurt Russell
Isabel Sanford
(1917-2004)
Susan Sarandon
John Savage
Telly Savalas
(1922-1994)
Roy Scheider
(1932-2008)
Romy Schneider
(1938-1982)
Maximilian Schell
(1930-2014)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
George C. Scott
(1927-1999)
Jean Seberg
(1938-1978)
George Segal
(1934-2021)
Peter Sellers
(1925-1980)
Jane Seymour
William Shatner
Omar Sharif
(1932-2015)
Robert Shaw
(1927-1978)
Martin Sheen
Cybill Shepherd
Talia Shire
Tom Skerritt
Jaclyn Smith
Suzanne Somers
(1946-2023)
Paul Sorvino
(1939-2022)
David Soul
(1943-2024)
Sissy Spacek
Joe Spinell
(1936-1989)
Robert Stack
(1919-2003)
Sylvester Stallone
Terence Stamp
Harry Dean Stanton
(1926-2017)
Jean Stapleton
(1923-2013)
Rod Steiger
(1925-2002)
Jerry Stiller
(1927-2020)
Dean Stockwell
(1936-2021)
Meryl Streep
Barbra Streisand
Susan Strasberg
(1938-1999)
Sally Struthers
Donald Sutherland
Loretta Swit
Max von Sydow
(1929-2020)
Elizabeth Taylor
(1932-2011)
Richard Thomas
Lily Tomlin
Rip Torn
(1931-2019)
John Travolta
Jean-Louis Trintignant
(1930-2022)
Cicely Tyson
(1924-2021)
Liv Ullmann
Robert Urich
(1946-2002)
Dick Van Dyke
Robert Vaughn
(1932-2016)
Hervé Villechaize
(1943-1993)
Jon Voight
Lindsay Wagner
Robert Wagner
Ralph Waite
(1928-2014)
Christopher Walken
Jimmie Walker
Eli Wallach
(1915-2014)
M. Emmet Walsh
(1935-2024)
Jack Warden
(1920-2006)
David Warner
(1941-2022)
Sam Waterston
John Wayne
(1907-1979)
Carl Weathers
(1948-2024)
Raquel Welch
(1940-2023)
Betty White
(1922-2021)
James Whitmore
(1921-2009)
Richard Widmark
(1914-2008)
Gene Wilder
(1933-2016)
Billy Dee Williams
Cindy Williams
(1947-2023)
Robin Williams
(1951-2014)
Treat Williams
(1951-2023)
Fred Williamson
Demond Wilson
Flip Wilson
(1933-1998)
Paul Winfield
(1939-2004)
Henry Winkler
Jonathan Winters
(1925-2013)
Shelley Winters
(1920-2006)
Joanne Woodward
James Woods
Michael York
Burt Young
(1940-2023)
Popular in the 1990's:
List
Jason Alexander
Tim Allen
Kirstie Alley
(1951-2022)
Gillian Anderson
Harry Anderson
(1952-2018)
Pamela Anderson
Jennifer Aniston
Christina Applegate
Patricia Arquette
Alan Arkin
Sean Astin
James Avery
(1945-2013)
Dan Aykroyd
Kevin Bacon
Alec Baldwin
Christian Bale
Antonio Banderas
Roseanne Barr
Drew Barrymore
Kim Basinger
Angela Bassett
Jason Bateman
Kathy Bates
Sean Bean
Candice Bergen
Halle Berry
Roberto Benigni
Tom Berenger
Mayim Bialik
Benjamin Bratt
Andre Braugher
(1962-2023)
Jeff Bridges
Matthew Broderick
Josh Brolin
Pierce Brosnan
Clancy Brown
Sandra Bullock
Steve Buscemi
James Caan
(1940-2022)
Nicolas Cage
Michael Caine
Bruce Campbell
Neve Campbell
John Candy
(1950-1994)
Drew Carey
Jim Carrey
Helena Bonham Carter
Gabrielle Carteris
Jim Caviezel
Lacey Chabert
Jackie Chan
Chevy Chase
Don Cheadle
Michael Chiklis
Thomas Haden Church
John Cleese
George Clooney
Glenn Close
Sean Connery
(1930-2020)
Bill Cosby
Kevin Costner
Dave Coulier
Courteney Cox
Bryan Cranston
Russell Crowe
Tom Cruise
Billy Crystal
Penélope Cruz
Ice Cube
Jamie Lee Curtis
John Cusack
Willem Dafoe
Tim Daly
Matt Damon
Jeff Daniels
Ted Danson
Tony Danza
Robert Davi
Geena Davis
Daniel Day-Lewis
Ellen DeGeneres
Benicio del Toro
Robert De Niro
Johnny Depp
Laura Dern
Danny DeVito
Cameron Diaz
Leonardo DiCaprio
Matt Dillon
Shannen Doherty
Michael Douglas
Robert Downey Jr.
Fran Drescher
Richard Dreyfuss
David Duchovny
Michael Clarke Duncan
(1957-2012)
Kirsten Dunst
Robert Duvall
Clint Eastwood
Jenna Elfman
Sam Elliott
R. Lee Ermey
(1944-2018)
Emilio Estevez
Dennis Farina
(1944-2013)
Chris Farley
(1964-1997)
Corey Feldman
Will Ferrell
Sally Field
Ralph Fiennes
Laurence Fishburne
Calista Flockhart
Dave Foley
Bridget Fonda
Peter Fonda
(1940-2019)
Harrison Ford
Robert Forster
(1941-2019)
Jodie Foster
Michael J. Fox
Jamie Foxx
Brendan Fraser
Morgan Freeman
James Gandolfini
(1961-2013)
Andy García
Jennie Garth
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Richard Gere
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
Jeff Goldblum
Cuba Gooding Jr.
John Goodman
Kelsey Grammer
Hugh Grant
Seth Green
Brian Austin Green
Bruce Greenwood
Pam Grier
Melanie Griffith
Gene Hackman
Corey Haim
(1971-2010)
Tom Hanks
Woody Harrelson
Ed Harris
Phil Hartman
(1948-1998)
Steve Harvey
David Hasselhoff
Teri Hatcher
Ethan Hawke
Lance Henriksen
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Dustin Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
(1967-2014)
Ian Holm
(1931-2020)
Anthony Hopkins
Dennis Hopper
(1936-2010)
Ernie Hudson
Helen Hunt
William Hurt
(1950-2022)
Jeremy Irons
Kevin James
Samuel L. Jackson
James Earl Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Scarlett Johansson
Angelina Jolie
Ashley Judd
Michael Keaton
Harvey Keitel
Nicole Kidman
Val Kilmer
Ben Kingsley
Lisa Kudrow
Jessica Lange
Hugh Laurie
Jude Law
Martin Lawrence
John Larroquette
Denis Leary
Matt LeBlanc
John Leguizamo
Jay Leno
David Letterman
Eugene Levy
Jet Li
Ray Liotta
(1954-2022)
John Lithgow
Lucy Liu
Lori Loughlin
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Jon Lovitz
Rob Lowe
Dolph Lundgren
Matthew McConaughey
Bernie Mac
(1957-2008)
William H. Macy
Michael Madsen
John Malkovich
Joe Mantegna
Steve Martin
Dylan McDermott
Ewan McGregor
Ian McKellen
Laurie Metcalf
Helen Mirren
Demi Moore
Julianne Moore
Tracy Morgan
Viggo Mortensen
Brittany Murphy
(1977-2009)
Eddie Murphy
Bill Murray
Mike Myers
Liam Neeson
Sam Neill
Craig T. Nelson
Jack Nicholson
Nick Nolte
Chuck Norris
Edward Norton
Conan O'Brien
Rosie O'Donnell
Gary Oldman
Edward James Olmos
Ed O'Neill
Al Pacino
Gwyneth Paltrow
Sarah Jessica Parker
Bill Paxton
(1955-2017)
Sean Penn
Luke Perry
(1966-2019)
Matthew Perry
(1969-2023)
Joe Pesci
Michelle Pfeiffer
River Phoenix
David Hyde Pierce
Brad Pitt
Natalie Portman
Kelly Preston
(1962-2020)
Jason Priestley
Jonathan Pryce
Dennis Quaid
Queen Latifah
James Rebhorn
(1948-2014)
Robert Redford
Keanu Reeves
Paul Reiser
Burt Reynolds
(1936-2018)
Ving Rhames
Michael Richards
Alan Rickman
(1946-2016)
Eric Roberts
Julia Roberts
Chris Rock
Tim Robbins
Ray Romano
Tim Roth
Kurt Russell
Rene Russo
Meg Ryan
Winona Ryder
Katey Sagal
Bob Saget
(1956-2022)
Adam Sandler
Susan Sarandon
Fred Savage
Rob Schneider
Arnold Schwarzenegger
David Schwimmer
Steven Seagal
Jerry Seinfeld
Tom Selleck
Tony Shalhoub
Garry Shandling
(1949-2016)
Wallace Shawn
Charlie Sheen
Martin Sheen
Martin Short
Alicia Silverstone
J. K. Simmons
Gary Sinise
Christian Slater
Will Smith
Jimmy Smits
Wesley Snipes
Kevin Spacey
David Spade
Tori Spelling
John Stamos
Sylvester Stallone
Mary Steenburgen
Patrick Stewart
Sharon Stone
Meryl Streep
Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Patrick Swayze
(1952-2009)
Jeffrey Tambor
Alan Thicke
(1947-2016)
Emma Thompson
Billy Bob Thornton
Uma Thurman
Marisa Tomei
Rip Torn
(1931-2019)
John Travolta
Danny Trejo
Chris Tucker
John Turturro
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Dick Van Dyke
Jim Varney
(1949-2000)
Reginald VelJohnson
Jon Voight
Mark Wahlberg
Christopher Walken
Paul Walker
(1973-2013)
Denzel Washington
Sam Waterston
Sigourney Weaver
Steven Weber
Forest Whitaker
Jaleel White
Robin Williams
(1951-2014)
Bruce Willis
Oprah Winfrey
Henry Winkler
Kate Winslet
Reese Witherspoon
James Woods
Robin Wright
Sean Young
Renée Zellweger
Ian Ziering
Popular Comedians:
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Dan Aykroyd
Jason Alexander
Tim Allen
Woody Allen
Louie Anderson
(1953-2022)
Roseanne Barr
Jim Belushi
John Belushi
(1949-1982)
Richard Belzer
(1944-2023)
Lewis Black
Alex Borstein
David Brenner
(1936-2014)
Mel Brooks
Lenny Bruce
(1925-1966)
Carol Burnett
Bill Burr
George Carlin
(1937-2008)
Jim Carrey
Johnny Carson
(1925-2005)
Dana Carvey
Dave Chappelle
Chevy Chase
Margaret Cho
Tommy Chong
Tim Conway
(1933-2019)
Bill Cosby
Dave Coulier
Billy Crystal
Rodney Dangerfield
(1921-2004)
Ellen DeGeneres
Phyllis Diller
(1917-2012)
Fran Drescher
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Dick Van Dyke
Chris Farley
(1964-1997)
Tina Fey
Jim Gaffigan
Leo Gallagher
(1946-2022)
Jeff Garlin
Brad Garrett
Whoopi Goldberg
Gilbert Gottfried
(1955-2022)
Shecky Greene
(1926-2023)
Dick Gregory
(1932-2017)
Kathy Griffin
Tiffany Haddish
Arsenio Hall
Kevin Hart
Phil Hartman
(1948-1998)
Steve Harvey
Bill Hicks
(1961-1994)
Kevin James
Leslie Jones
Mario Joyner
Mindy Kaling
Andy Kaufman
(1949-1984)
Jimmy Kimmel
Sam Kinison
(1953-1992)
Ted Knight
(1923-1987)
Don Knotts
(1924-2006)
Artie Lange
Martin Lawrence
Denis Leary
Jay Leno
David Letterman
Jerry Lewis
(1926-2017)
Richard Lewis
(1947-2024)
Jon Lovitz
Bernie Mac
(1957-2008)
Norm Macdonald
(1959-2021)
Seth MacFarlane
Howie Mandel
Cheech Marin
Steve Martin
Jackie Mason
(1928-2021)
Kate McKinnon
Tim Meadows
Paul Mooney
(1941-2021)
Tracy Morgan
Garrett Morris
Charlie Murphy
(1959-2017)
Eddie Murphy
Mike Myers
Seth Meyers
Kevin Nealon
Bob Newhart
Laraine Newman
Conan O'Brien
Amy Poehler
Colin Quinn
Gilda Radner
(1946-1989)
Richard Pryor
(1940-2005)
Carl Reiner
(1922-2020)
Andy Richter
Don Rickles
(1926-2017)
Joan Rivers
(1933-2014)
Chris Rock
Seth Rogen
Ray Romano
Jeff Ross
Maya Rudolph
Bob Saget
(1956-2022)
Adam Sandler
Andy Samberg
Garry Shandling
(1949-2016)
Martin Short
Rob Schneider
Amy Schumer
Jerry Seinfeld
Sarah Silverman
David Spade
Ben Stiller
Jerry Stiller
(1927-2020)
Nick Swardson
Wanda Sykes
Kenan Thompson
Lily Tomlin
Kristen Wiig
Robin Williams
(1951-2014)
Jonathan Winters
(1925-2013)
Henry Winkler
Popular Country musicians and singers:
List
Jason Aldean
Bill Anderson
Lynn Anderson
(1947-2015)
Eddy Arnold
(1918-2008)
Chet Atkins
(1924-2001)
Joan Baez
Bobby Bare
Pat Boone
Garth Brooks
Ed Bruce
(1939-2021)
Jimmy Buffett
(1946-2023)
Glen Campbell
(1936-2017)
Johnny Cash
(1932-2003)
Ray Charles
(1930-2004)
Kenny Chesney
Roy Clark
(1933-2018)
Patsy Cline
(1932-1963)
David Allan Coe
Rita Coolidge
Charlie Daniels
(1936-2020)
Mac Davis
(1942-2020)
Neil Diamond
Little Jimmy Dickens
(1920-2015)
Joe Diffie
(1958-2020)
John Denver
(1943-1997)
Bob Dylan
Crystal Gayle
Don Gibson
(1928-2003)
Vince Gill
Mickey Gilley
(1936-2022)
Lee Greenwood
Merle Haggard
(1937-2016)
Tom T. Hall
(1936-2021)
Emmylou Harris
Lee Hazlewood
(1929-2007)
Buddy Holly
(1936-1959)
Alan Jackson
Wanda Jackson
Waylon Jennings
(1937-2002)
George Jones
(1931-2013)
Tom Jones
Toby Keith
(1961-2024)
Kris Kristofferson
Jerry Lee Lewis
(1935-2022)
Brenda Lee
Johnny Lee
Gordon Lightfoot
(1938-2023)
Kenny Loggins
Loretta Lynn
(1932-2022)
Reba McEntire
Tim McGraw
Roger Miller
(1936-1992)
Ronnie Milsap
Anne Murray
Ricky Nelson
(1940-1985)
Willie Nelson
Roy Orbison
(1936-1988)
Buck Owens
(1929-2006)
Brad Paisley
Patti Page
(1927-2013)
Johnny Paycheck
(1938-2003)
Dolly Parton
Elvis Presley
(1935-1977)
Ray Price
(1926-2013)
Charley Pride
(1934-2020)
Eddie Rabbitt
(1941-1998)
Charlie Rich
(1932-1995)
Jerry Reed
(1937-2008)
Jim Reeves
(1923-1964)
Marty Robbins
(1925-1982)
Kenny Rogers
(1938-2020)
Linda Ronstadt
Blake Shelton
Ricky Van Shelton
Jean Shepard
(1933-2016)
Nancy Sinatra
Connie Smith
Hank Snow
(1914-1999)
George Strait
Marty Stuart
Hank Thompson
(1925-2007)
Mel Tillis
(1932-2017)
Randy Travis
Ernest Tubb
(1914-1984)
Conway Twitty
(1933-1993)
Keith Urban
Porter Wagoner
(1927-2007)
Kitty Wells
(1919-2012)
Dottie West
(1932-1991)
Hank Williams
(1923-1953)
Don Williams
(1939-2017)
Tammy Wynette
(1942-1998)
Dwight Yoakam
Faron Young
(1932-1996)
Neil Young
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Frank Abagnale
David Berkowitz
Whitey Bulger
(1929-2018)
Ted Bundy
(1946-1989)
Al Capone
(1899-1947)
Mark David Chapman
Andrei Chikatilo
Andrew Cunanan
(1969-1997)
Jeffrey Dahmer
(1960-1994)
Joseph James DeAngelo
Pablo Escobar
(1949-1993)
John Wayne Gacy
(1942-1994)
Robert Hansen
(1939-2014)
John Hinckley Jr.
Henry Hill
(1943-2012)
Leslie Van Houten
Ted Kaczynski
Frank Lucas
(1930-2019)
Charles Manson
(1934-2017)
Timothy McVeigh
(1968-2001)
John Allen Muhammad
(1960-2009)
Terry Nichols
Dennis Nilsen
(1945-2018)
Lee Harvey Oswald
(1939-1963)
Scott Peterson
Richard Ramirez
(1960-2013)
James Earl Ray
(1928-1998)
Gary Ridgway
Jack Ruby
(1911-1967)
Assata Shakur
Frank Sheeran
(1920-2003)
Sirhan Sirhan
Richard Speck
(1941-1991)
Peter Sutcliffe
(1946-2020)
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