1916

January 1

• Birth of Earl Wrightson Baltimore Maryland, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue). [1]

January 3

• Birth of Antonio Estevez composer. [1]
• Birth of Betty Furness New York City, New York, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1). [1]

January 4

• Birth of Catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede portrait painter. [1]
• Birth of Robert Parrish Columbus Georgia, director (Casino Royale). [1]

January 6

• Birth of Philip Bezanson composer. [1]

January 7

• Birth of Gerrit Schulte [Le Fou Pedalant], Dutch six day bicyclist. [1]
• Birth of Paul Keres USSR, chess grandmaster (1950). [1]

January 9

• Birth of Alain Bernardin impressario (Crazy Horse Saloon). [1]
• Birth of Vic Mizzy Brooklyn New York, orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show). [1]

January 11

• Birth of Bernard Blier Buenos Aires Argentina; actor (Les Miserables). [1]
• Birth of James H [Jimmy] Quillen (Representative-Republican-Tennessee, 1963-). [1]

January 12

• Birth of A P(ieter) W Botha Orange Free State, President of South Africa. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Bella Lewitsky choreographer. [1]
• Birth of Osa Massen Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Jack London, Rocketship XM). [1]

January 14

• Birth of John Oliver Killens novelist. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Mikki Doyle journalist. [1]

January 16

• Birth of Frederick Stewart British geologist. [1]

January 17

• Birth of Joel Herron Chicago Illinois, orchestra leader (Jaye P Morgan Show). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Alec Coxon cricketer (England pace bowler in one Test, 2-90 and 1-82). [1]

January 20

• Birth of Jopie [Johan A] Pengel premier of Suriname (1963-69). [1]
• Birth of Walter Bartley biochemist. [1]

January 22

• Birth of Henri Dutilleux Angers France, composer. [1]

January 24

• Birth of John Corner scientist. [1]
• Birth of Vic Stollmeyer cricketer (brother of Jeff Scored 96 in only Test innings). [1]

January 26

• Birth of Lothar Jensch composer. [1]

January 28

• Birth of Peter Crossley-Holland composer. [1]

January 29

• Birth of Barbara Skelton writer. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Ciro D Crown premier of Dutch Antilles (1968-69). [1]
• Birth of Frank A Parker tennis champion (US Open-1944). [1]
• Birth of Violet Cane statistician. [1]

February 1

• Birth of Gordon Hobday Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire). [1]

February 3

• Birth of Vivien Signy nurse. [1]

February 4

• Birth of Basil Hembry farmer/campaigner. [1]
• Birth of Colin Morris playwright/documentary filmmaker. [1]
• Birth of David Vassall Cox composer. [1]
• Birth of Gavin Buchanan Ewart English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh). [1]

February 6

• Birth of Bill Doggett rocker. [1]

February 10

• Birth of Edward R Roybal (Representative-Democrat-California, 1963-). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Bernice Levin Neugarten social scientist/gerontologist. [1]

February 12

• Birth of Joseph L Alioto (Mayor-San Francisco). [1]
• Birth of Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske Austrian composer (Vom Tode). [1]

February 13

• Birth of James Griffith Los Angeles California; actor (Sheriff of Cochise). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Edward Platt Staten Island New York; actor (Chief-Get Smart). [1]
• Birth of Masaki Kobayashi Japanese director (Joi-uchi). [1]
• Birth of Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski composer. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Ian Ballantine publisher (Ballantine Books). [1]

February 16

• Birth of William Ballard Doggett jazz musician. [1]

February 17

• Birth of Don Tallon cricketer (perhaps Australia's greatest wicket-keeper). [1]
• Birth of Raf Vallone Tropea Italy; actor (El Cid, two Women, Greek Tycoon). [1]

February 18

• Birth of Betty Phyllis Gathergood curator. [1]
• Birth of Jean Drapeau mayor of Montréal (1954-1957, 1960-1986). [1]

February 19

• Birth of Eddie Arcaro jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, two triple crowns). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Julius Juzeliunas composer. [1]
• Birth of Paul Tripp New York City, New York, TV host (Mr I Magination). [1]

February 23

• Birth of George Abel Canada, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1972). [1]
• Birth of Martindale Sidwell organist/conductor. [1]
• Birth of William Walsh academic. [1]

February 24

• Birth of Gene Mitchell museum director. [1]

February 25

• Birth of Ian Wallace British CEO. [1]
• Birth of Ralph Baldwin harness driver (set 11 major world records). [1]

February 26

• Birth of Jackie Gleason in Brooklyn, New York; comedian (Ralph Kramden - The Honeymooners). [1] [5]
• Birth of Mordecai Seter composer. [1]
• Birth of Ross Gregory cricketer (Australian batsman 1936-37, died in WWII). [1]

March 2

• Birth of Anne Vondeling Dutch politician (PvdA). [1]
• Birth of Bernard George Stevens composer. [1]

March 4

• Birth of Giorgio Bassani Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure). [1]
• Birth of Hans Eysenck psychologist. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Horace Ian Parrott composer. [1]

March 6

• Birth of Rochelle Hudson Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actress (That's My Boy). [1]

March 8

• Birth of R W Schnell writer. [1]

March 10

• Birth of James Herriot Scotland, writer (All Creatures Great and Small). [1]
• Birth of Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill record producer. [1]

March 11

• Birth of Sir [James] Harold Wilson (Liberal) British Prime Minister (1964-70, 1974-76). [1]

March 13

• Birth of (Corinne) Lindy (Claiborne) Boggs (Representative-Democrat-Louisiana, 1973-). [1]

March 15

• Birth of Geert Lubberhuizen publisher (Busy Bee). [1]
• Birth of Harry James Albany Georgia, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable). [1]

March 16

• Birth of Lloyd McBride union president (United Steelworkers). [1]

March 18

• Birth of Louis Toebosch composer. [1]

March 19

• Birth of Irving Wallace author (People's Almanac, The Man). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Pierre Messmer Prime Minister (France). [1]

March 21

• Birth of Harold Robbins US, novelist (The Carpetbaggers) [or 0521]. [1]

March 22

• Birth of George Wyle New York City, New York, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show). [1]
• Birth of Josephine van Gasteren Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets). [1]

March 25

• Birth of Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko composer. [1]

March 26

• Birth of Bill Edrich cricketer (Middlesex and England bat, Compton's mate). [1]
• Birth of Christian B Anfinsen US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel Prize 1972). [1]
• Birth of Harry Rabinowitz British composer/conductor. [1]
• Birth of Mort Abrahams producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes). [1]
• Birth of Sterling Hayden Upper Montclair New Jersey; actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra). [1]
• Birth of Vic Schoen Brooklyn New York, orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show). [1]

March 29

• Birth of Eugene J McCarthy Watkins Minnesota, (Senator-Democrat-Minnesota, Presidential candidate 1968). [1]
• Birth of John Paul Governor-General (Bahamas). [1]

March 31

• Birth of John Vivyan Chicago Illinois; actor (Imitation of Life, Mr Lucky). [1]

April 3

• Birth of Herb Caen Sacramento California, columnist (San Francisco Chronicle). [1]
• Birth of Robert Jesse Charleston museum Curator. [1]

April 4

• Birth of David White actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched). [1]
• Birth of Herbert Eugene Caen columnist. [1]

April 5

• Birth of Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn. [1]
• Birth of Bernard Baily comic artist. [1]
• Birth of Gregory Peck La Jolla California; actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur). [1]

April 11

• Birth of Alberto E Ginastera Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi). [1]
• Birth of Dan Fortmann NFL guard (Chicago Bears). [1]
• Birth of Howard Koch producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II). [1]

April 12

• Birth of Brian Connell writer/broadcaster. [1]

April 14

• Birth of Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari cricketer (India 1947-48). [1]
• Birth of Denis ApIvor composer. [1]
• Birth of Emerson Buckley composer. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Azijn Banana [Oscar Enau], Antillean publicist. [1]
• Birth of David Stafford-Clark psychiatrist. [1]
• Birth of Donald Gibson British Vice-Admiral. [1]
• Birth of Ryoei Saito businessman. [1]
• Birth of Sirimavo Bandaranaike world's first woman Prime Minister (Sri Lanka, 1960-77). [1]

April 21

• Birth of Sidney Clute Brooklyn New York; actor (Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey). [1]

April 22

• Birth of Earl of Oxford and Asquith Governor (Seychelles). [1]
• Birth of Yehudi Menuhin New York City, New York, violinist/conductor (Bartok's Sonata). [1]

April 23

• Birth of Bud Wilkinson college football coach (Oklahoma). [1]

April 24

• Birth of Stanley Kauffmann New York City, New York, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man). [1]

April 26

• Birth of Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk composer. [1]
• Birth of Morris L West Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman). [1]

April 27

• Birth of Jan Rychlik composer. [1]

April 30

• Birth of Claude Shannon information theorist. [1]
• Birth of Dugo D Schenker Suriname/Antillian producer. [1]
• Birth of Robert Shaw Red Bluff California, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale). [1]

May 1

• Birth of Glenn Ford in Québec, Canada; actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway). [1] [5]
• Birth of Jack Parr Canton Ohio, TV host (Jack Paar Show). [1]
• Birth of Jane Jacobs Scranton Pennsylvania, urbanologist. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Henry Barbosa Gonzalez San Antonio Texas, (Representative-Democrat-Texas, 1961-). [1]
• Birth of Pierre Emmanuel French poet (Sodome). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer. [1]

May 5

• Birth of Mutal' Burkhanov composer. [1]

May 6

• Birth of Adriana Caselotti animation voice (Show White). [1]

May 8

• Birth of Gordon Scarrott engineer. [1]

May 9

• Birth of Bernard William George Rose composer/organist. [1]
• Birth of Cyril Bowles bishop of Derby. [1]
• Birth of Douglas Guest organist. [1]

May 10

• Birth of Milton Babbitt US mathematician/composer (Widow's Lament). [1]

May 11

• Birth of Camilo José Cela Spain, author (La Colmena-1951). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Ellis Bonoff Kohs composer. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Bill Williams Brooklyn New York; actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels). [1]

May 16

• Birth of Adriana Caselotti cartoon voice. [1]
• Birth of Bernard Braden broadcaster/actor (All Night Lone, Full Treatment). [1]
• Birth of Ephraim Katzir biophysicist/President (Israel). [1]
• Birth of Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro doctor/social reformer. [1]

May 17

• Birth of Cornelis A Eman Aruban politician. [1]
• Birth of John Hinde photographer/circus promoter. [1]

May 20

• Birth of Cornelie Coposu politician. [1]
• Birth of John McIntyre theologian. [1]
• Birth of Owen Chadwick chancellor (University of East Anglia). [1]

May 21

• Birth of Harold Robbins New York City, New York, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy). [1]
• Birth of Joseph Janni producer. [1]
• Birth of Leonard Manasseh architect. [1]

May 22

• Birth of Gordon Binkerd composer. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Margaret Hayden Rector playwright (living legacy award 1995). [1]

May 24

• Birth of Roden Cutler Governor (New South Wales). [1]

May 25

• Birth of Lou van Rees Dutch impresario [or May 29]. [1]
• Birth of Virginia Ginny Simms actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band). [1]

May 27

• Birth of Norman Griggs Vice President (Building Society Association). [1]

May 28

• Birth of C Wright Mills US sociologist (Power Elite) [or August 28]. [1]
• Birth of Gerald McArthur detective. [1]
• Birth of Thora Hird actress (Nightcomers, Kind of Loving). [1]
• Birth of Walker Percy Birmingham Alabama, author (Adventures of a Bad Catholic). [1]
• Birth of Walker Percy Birmingham Alabama, writer (Adventures of a Bad Catholic). [1]

May 29

• Birth of Carl M Story fiddler. [1]

May 30

• Birth of Dr Joseph W Kennedy scientist (one of four discoverers of plutonium). [1]

May 31

• Birth of Bert Haanstra Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare). [1]
• Birth of John Vivyan actor (Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life). [1]
• Birth of Judy Campbell actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie). [1]

June 8

• Birth of Francis Crick codiscovered DNA's structure (Nobel Prize 1962). [1]

June 9

• Birth of Robert S McNamara US Secretary of Defense (1961-68)/head of World Bank. [1]

June 12

• Birth of Irwin Allen disaster-movie producer (Towering Inferno). [1]

June 23

• Birth of Irene Worth Nebraska, actress (Deathtrap, Nicolas and Alexandra). [1]

June 24

• Birth of John Ciardi poet/critic (translated Dante). [1]

June 26

• Birth of Alex Dreier Honolulu Hawaii, newscaster (Whats it all about World?). [1]

June 29

• Birth of Ruth Warwick Saint Joseph Missouri, actress (All My Children, Peyton Place). [1]

June 30

• Birth of David Wayne actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, Three Faces of Eve). [1]

July 1

• Birth of Olivia de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan; actress (Adventures of Robin Hood). [1] [5]

July 2

• Birth of Barry Gray radio personality (started call-in radio). [1]
• Birth of Ken Curtis Lamar Colorado, USA; actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke). [1]

July 4

• Birth of Tokyo Rose WW II propogandist. [1]

July 9

• Birth of Edward Heath (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1970-74). [1]

July 11

• Birth of Gough Whitlam (ALP) Australia, Prime Minister (1972-75). [1]

July 17

• Birth of Eleanor Steber Wheeling West Virginia, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940). [1]

July 18

• Birth of Harriet Hilliard Nelson singer/actress (Ozzie and Harriet). [1]

July 19

• Birth of Phillip Cavaretta baseball player (National League Most Valuable Player 1945). [1]

July 23

• Birth of Ben Weber Saint Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965). [1]

July 24

• Birth of Bob Eberly Mechanicsville New York, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band). [1]
• Birth of John D MacDonald novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye). [1]

July 27

• Birth of Kennan Wynn New York City; actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor). [1]

July 28

• Birth of David Brown New York City, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes). [1]
• Birth of Laird Cregar Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square). [1]

August 2

• Birth of Beatrice Straight Old Westbury New York, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story). [1]

August 6

• Birth of Michael Burke sports executive (New York Yankees, New York Knicks). [1]

August 18

• Birth of Elsa Morante Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo). [1]
• Birth of Moura Lympany Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979). [1]

August 19

• Birth of Marie Wilson Anaheim California, actress (My Friend Irma). [1]

August 25

• Birth of Van Johnson Newport Rhode Island; actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks. [1]

August 28

• Birth of C Wright Mills sociologist, writer (The Power Elite). [1]

August 29

• Birth of George Montgomery Brady Mont; actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination). [1]

August 31

• Birth of Daniel Schorr broadcast journalist (CBS). [1]

September 2

• Birth of Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney winner of more than 141 US tennis titles. [1]
• Birth of Penny Santon Greenwich Village New York, actress (Roll Out, Matt Houston). [1]

September 14

• Birth of Eric Bentley England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater). [1]

September 15

• Birth of Margaret Lockwood actress (Lady Vanishes). [1]

September 18

• Birth of John J Rhodes (Representative-Republican-Arizona). [1]
• Birth of Rossano Brazzi Bologna Italy; actor (Antaeus-Survivors). [1]

September 28

• Birth of Peter Finch actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe). [1]

September 29

• Birth of Trevor Howard England; actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter). [1]

October 7

• Birth of Walt W Rostow economist (Politics and Stages of Growth). [1]

October 8

• Birth of Spark Matsunaga (Democrat-Hawaii-Senator). [1]

October 14

• Birth of C Everett Koop surgeon general (1981-89). [1]

October 19

• Birth of David Lewis Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital). [1]
• Birth of Emil Gilels Odessa Russia, pianist (Brussels Competition-1938). [1]

October 22

• Birth of Sid Miller Shenandoah Pennsylvania; actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show). [1]

October 26

• Birth of François Mitterand Jarnac France, President of France (1981-1995). [1]

November 4

• Birth of Walter Cronkite Saint Joseph Missouri, news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81). [1]

November 6

• Birth of Ray Conniff Massachusetts, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers). [1]

November 7

• Birth of Joe Bushkin New York City, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes). [1]

November 8

• Birth of June Havoc Seattle Washington, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater). [1]
• Birth of Peter Weiss Germany, Swedish writer/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade). [1]

November 10

• Birth of Billy May Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show). [1]
• Birth of Guido Turchi Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva). [1]

November 13

• Birth of Jack Elam Miami Arizona; actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo). [1]

November 16

• Birth of Daws Butler in Toledo, Ohio, USA; cartoon voice (Elroy Jetson). [1] [5]

November 20

• Birth of Judy Canova Jacksonville Florida, comedienne/actress (Cannonball). [1]
• Birth of Robert A Bruce Maryland, pioneer (exercise cardiology). [1]

November 21

• Birth of Sid Luckman NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears). [1]

November 28

• Birth of Guy Lapebie France, 100K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1936). [1]

December 2

• Birth of John Bentley Sparkhill Birmingham England; actor (The Chair, Hammer the Toff). [1]

December 8

• Birth of Dorothy Mae Ballard labor union representative. [1]

December 9

• Birth of Wolfgang Hildesheimer German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog). [1]

December 15

• Birth of Maurice Wilkins England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel Prize 1962). [1]

December 16

• Birth of Theo Bitter Dutch painter/set designer. [1]
• Birth of Udom Patpongsiri property developer. [1]

December 17

• Birth of Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans Dutch entertainer/poet (Kolderliedjes). [1]

December 18

• Birth of Betty Grable in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Gay Divorcee). [1] [5]

December 19

• Birth of Adriaan van der Veen Dutch writer (Sister at Sea). [1]
• Birth of Hal Hastings New York City, New York, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway). [1]
• Birth of Mervyn Wallace cricketer (13 Tests for New Zealand, latterly as captain). [1]

December 21

• Birth of Eve Perrick journalist. [1]
• Birth of John Boon publisher. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Daniel Devoto composer. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Helmut Eder composer. [1]

December 28

• Birth of Noel Johnson British actor (Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash). [1]

December 31

• Birth of Suzy Delair Paris France, actress (Utopia, White Paws). [1]