- January 13
- Birth of Steve Dunne in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA; actor (The Adventures of Sam Spade radio show, Professional Father TV show, The Brothers Brannigan, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Brady Bunch, The Millionaire, Lux Video Theatre). [1] [457]
- Birth of Ted Willis; prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young). [1]
- January 15
- Birth of Andreas M Donner; Dutch jurist (constitutional law). [1]
- Birth of Gamal Abdel Nasser; President of Egypt (1954-1970). [1]
- January 17
- Birth of Joseph Walker Barr; banker/politician, US Treasury Secretary. [1] [630.72]
- January 18
- Birth of Ton Brandsteder; CEO/founder (Sony Nederland). [1]
- January 19
- Birth of John H Johnson; US publisher (Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet). [1]
- January 22
- Birth of Richard Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA; actor (Wonder Woman TV show, Bright Promise TV show, Falcon Crest TV show). [1] [457]
- January 23
- Birth of Gertrude Belle Elion in New York City, New York, USA; biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel Prize 1988). [1]
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- January 24
- Birth of Gottfried von Einem in Bern, Switzerland; Austrian composer (Dantons Tod). [1]
- Birth of John McLiam in Alberta, Canada; actor (Parker - Men From Shiloh). [1]
- Birth of Oral Roberts; Televangelist (Oral Roberts College). [1]
- January 25
- Birth of Ken Mayers; actor (Robbie Robertson - Space Patrol). [1]
- January 26
- Birth of Nicolae Ceausescu; Romanian President (1967-90). [1]
- January 27
- Birth of Elmore James; musician ("Dust My Broom"). [1]
- Birth of Skitch Henderson AKA Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson at Birmingham, England; musical director (Bing Crosby), bandleader (The Tonight Show TV show), host (The Tonight Show TV show). [1] [457]
- January 28
- Birth of Harry M Corbett in Bradford, England; puppeteer/entertainer (Sooty, Some People). [1]
- Birth of Suzanne Flon in Paris, France; actress (One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge). [1]
- Birth of Vito Scotti in San Francisco, California, USA; character actor (Life With Luigi, The Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park, Disneyland). [1] [457]
- January 29
- Birth of John Forsythe in New Jersey, USA; actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty). [1] [5] [457]
- Birth of William Rigney; baseball manager (San Francisco Giants). [1]
- January 30
- Birth of David Opatoshu in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada). [1]
- February 1
- Birth of Maurice Laing; life president (John Laing). [1]
- Birth of Muriel Spark in Edinburgh, Scotland; novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie). [1]
- February 2
- Birth of Hella Serafia Van Lelyveld-Haasse in Batavia, Dutch East Indies; Dutch author (Cider for Poor People). [1]
- February 3
- Birth of Helen Stephens; US 100 metre dash (Olympics-gold-1936). [1]
- Birth of Joseph Abraham Gottlieb AKA Joey Bishop in The Bronx, New York, USA; comedian/talk show host (Joey Bishop Show). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Norman Wisdom in London, England; comedian (Kraft Music Hall). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Charles John Holt AKA Tim Holt in Beverly Hills, California; actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Stagecoach, Hitler's Children). [1]
- Birth of Robert Brown in the Hebrides Islands, Scotland; actor (Here Come The Brides, Primus). [1]
- February 8
- Birth of Lord Max Rayne; English broker/multi-millionaire. [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Blaine Gibson in Colorado, USA; started at Disney Studio in 1939 in animation, created hundreds of sculptures for use in Disneyland attractions, retired 1983, named Disney Legend in 1993. [510.184]
- February 12
- Birth of Dominic DiMaggio; baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox). [1]
- February 13
- Birth of Helen Stephens in Fulton, Missouri, USA; 100 metre runner (Olympics-gold-1936). [1]
- Birth of Patty Berg in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; LPGA golfer (1938 US Amateur, 1943, 1955 Associated Press Sports Woman of the Year). [1]
- February 15
- Birth of Alan Arbus in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Dr Sidney Freedman - M*A*S*H). [1]
- February 16
- Birth of Patty Andrews in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; singer (The Andrews Sisters - "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Rum and Coca Cola", "I'll be with you in Apple Blossom Time"). [1] [457]
- February 17
- Birth of Charles A Hayes; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Illinois, 1983-). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Charles O Finley; baseball team owner (Oakland Athletics). [1]
- Birth of Dominick George Pardo AKA Don Pardo in Westfield, Massachusetts, USA; TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live). [1] [5]
- Birth of Robert Wadlow in Alton, Illinois, USA; tallest known human (2.72m, 8 feet 11.1 inches). [1]
- Birth of Sid Abel; NHL player (1948-49 Hart Trophy). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of Dom Aelred Watkin; headmaster (Downside School). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of Henry Norwood Ewell in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; 4x100 metre runner (Olympics-gold-1948). [1]
- Birth of Robert Lorimer Riggs AKA Bobby Riggs; US tennis star (US Open 1939, 1941). [1]
- February 26
- Birth of Edwin Charles Roe AKA The Preacher; baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers). [1]
- Birth of Otis R Bowen; US Secretary of Health and Human Services (1985-89). [1]
- Birth of Edward Hamilton Waldo AKA Theodore Sturgeon; American sci-fi author (Starshine, A Way Home, Hugo, Caviar). [1]
- February 28
- Birth of Alfred Burke in London, England; actor (Backfire). [1]
- March 1
- Birth of Roger Delgado in London, England; actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enough for June). [1]
- March 3
- Birth of Arnold Newman; photographer (Faces USA). [1]
- Birth of Arthur Kornberg; US biochemist (Nobel Prize 1959). [1]
- March 4
- Birth of Margaret Osborne DuPont in Joseph, Oregon, USA; tennis pro (US Open 1948-50). [1]
- March 5
- Birth of Halsey S Colchester; British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest. [1]
- Birth of Ranga Sohoni; Indian cricket player (pace bowler of late 1940s average 101). [1]
- March 9
- Birth of Marguerite Chapman in Chatham, New York, USA; actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars). [1]
- Birth of Frank Morrison Spillane AKA Mickey Spillane in Brooklyn, New York, USA; mystery writer (I the Jury). [1]
- March 11
- Birth of Al Eben in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Doc Bergman - Hawaii Five-O TV show). [1] [457]
- March 13
- Birth of George McAfee; NFL halfback (Chicago Bears). [1]
- William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at age 26. [1]
- March 14
- Birth of Dennis Patrick AKA Dennis Patrick Harrison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Laramie, Somerset, Dallas, Rituals, War and Remembrance, Dark Shadows, Dear Dead Delilah). [1] [457]
- March 15
- Birth of Richard Ellmann; American literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde). [1]
- March 16
- Birth of Aldo E van Eyck; Dutch architect (City Hall). [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Arend Honhoff AKA D. Arendo; Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora). [1]
- Birth of Mercedes McCambridge in Joliet, Illinois, USA; actress (Abie's Irish Rose radio show, I Love a Mystery radio show, Big Sister radio show, Betty & Bob radio show, This is Nora Drake radio show, One Man's Family TV show, The Exorcist movie, CBS Mystery Theatre radio show, All the King's Men). [1] [457]
- Birth of Wilhelmus M J Russell; Dutch attorney/Member of first chamber (KVP/CDA). [1]
- March 20
- Birth of Bernd-Alois Zimmermann; German composer (Soldiers). [1]
- Birth of Jack Barry in Lindenhurst, New York, USA; game show emcee (The Joker's Wild). [1]
- March 21
- Birth of Howard Cosell in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA; sportscaster (WABC Radio in New York, WABC-TV, Monday Night Football). [1] [5] [457]
- Birth of Joe Carveth; NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in three seasons). [1]
- March 22
- Birth of Cheddi B Jagan; dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64). [1]
- Birth of Harry Kay; vice-chancellor (Exeter University). [1]
- March 29
- Birth of John Read; CEO (TSB Group). [1]
- Birth of Pearl Bailey in Newport News, Virginia, USA; singer ("Takes Two to Tango", "Hello Dolly"), actress (As the World Turns TV show), and comedienne. [1] [457]
- Birth of Sam Walton; billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart). [1]
- March 30
- Birth of Joseph Allen Junior in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Death of a Champion). [1]
- March 31
- Birth of Ted Post in Brooklyn, New York, USA; director (Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Gunsmoke). [1]
- April 3
- Birth of Sixten Ehrling in Malmö, Sweden; conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm). [1]
- April 4
- Birth of Earl Jellicoe; chancellor (University of Southhampton). [1]
- April 6
- Birth of Joan Bernard; Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham). [1]
- Birth of Karen Verne in Berlin, Germany; actress (Madame X). [1]
- April 7
- Birth of C B Bertie Clarke; cricket player (Barbados and West Indian leg-spinner). [1]
- Birth of Peanuts Hucko in Syracuse, New York, USA; bigband clarinetist (Charlie Spivak, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Ray McKinley, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Lawrence Welk Orchestra). [1] [457]
- Birth of Peter Carolus Jan Vander AKA Peter Aryans; Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out). [1]
- Birth of Ronald Howard in Norwood, England; actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style). [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Elizabeth Ann Bloomer; first lady to US President Gerald Ford (1975-76), namesake for Betty Ford Clinic. [5]
- April 9
- Birth of Jörn Utzon; Danish architect (Sydney Opera House). [1]
- April 12
- Birth of Edward John Stanley; 18th Earl of Derby, English landowner/multi-millionaire. [1]
- April 14
- Birth of Mary Healy in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actress (Second Fiddle, He Married his Wife). [1]
- April 15
- Birth of John Baragrey in Haleyville, Alabama, USA; actor (Creeper, Colossus of New York). [1]
- April 16
- Birth of Spike Milligan in Ahmed Nagar, India; actor/comedian (Digby, The Three Musketeers). [1]
- April 17
- Birth of Anne Shirley in the United Kingdom; actress (Devil and Daniel Webster, Stella Dallas). [1]
- Birth of William Franklin Beedle AKA William Holden in O'Fallon, Illinois, USA; actor (Stalag 17, Bridge Over the River Kwai, SOB). [1]
- April 18
- Birth of Robert Zimonyi in Hungary; cox (Olympics-bronze-1948/US-gold-1964). [1]
- Birth of Roger de Grey; president (Royal Academy). [1]
- Birth of Tony Mottola in Kearney, New Jersey, USA; guitarist (studio musician, CBS studio orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Melody Street TV show, arranger for Perry Como's TV variety show), president of Sony Music Entertainment. [1] [457]
- April 22
- Birth of Robert Wadlow in Alton, Illinois, USA; world's tallest man (8 feet 11.1 inches). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Maurice Druon; French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt). [1]
- April 25
- Birth of Astrid Varnay in Stockholm, Sweden; soprano (Metropolitan Opera 1941-56). [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Fanny Blankers-Koen in Holland; 100 metre/200 metre dash, Hurdler (Olympics-gold-1948). [1]
- Birth of Jack Morpurgo; American Literature scholar (Leeds University). [1]
- Birth of Stafford Repp in California, USA; actor (Chief O'Hara - Batman, Plunder Road). [1]
- April 27
- Birth of John Alfred Scali; journalist/correspondant (ABC). [1]
- Birth of Kirby Stone in New York City, New York, USA; jazz combo leader (Kirby Stone Four - "Baubles Bangles and Beads" (1958)). [1] [457]
- Birth of Willem N Koot AKA Pim Koot; pianist of Concert building ("Oh, Lady! Lady!:). [1]
- April 29
- Birth of Mervyn Roye Harvey; cricket player (brother of Neil, Test for Australia). [1]
- April 30
- Birth of W Donald McNeill; tennis champion (US Open-1940). [1]
- May 4
- Birth of Kakuei Tanaka; Japanese Prime Minister (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking. [1]
- May 9
- Birth of Mike Wallace in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA; newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes). [1] [5] [457]
- Birth of Orville Freeman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Minnesota), Secretary of Agriculture (1961-69). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Margo; singer (Golden Irish Favorites). [1]
- Birth of T Berry Brazelton; doctor (On Being a Father). [1]
- May 11
- Birth of Richard P Feynman; physicist (Feynman-diagrams, Nobel Prize 1965). [1]
- Birth of Robert Hunt; CEO (Dowty Group). [1]
- May 12
- Birth of Oscar Beregi Junior in Hungary; actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City). [1]
- Birth of Julius Rosenberg in New York, USA; engineer for U.S. Army Signal Corps, executed for spying. [129]
- May 13
- Birth of John Johnston; British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia). [1]
- May 14
- Birth of Arthur McIntyre; cricket wicket-keeper (England three times early 1950s). [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Eddy Arnold in Henderson, Tennessee, USA; country singer ("Cattle Call", "Anytime"). [1]
- Birth of Joseph Wiseman in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables). [1]
- May 16
- Birth of Juan Rulfo; Mexican writer (Pedro Páramo). [1]
- Birth of Kevin Skelton; Bishop (Lichfield). [1]
- May 17
- Birth of Birgit Nilsson in Karup, Sweden; operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome). [1]
- May 18
- Birth of Karol Wojtyla AKA Pope John Paul II; 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978-). [1]
- May 19
- Birth of Florence Chadwick; swimmer (first to swim English Channel both ways). [1]
- May 23
- Birth of Denis Compton; cricket player (England batsman 1938-56 and Arsenal forward). [1]
- May 24
- Birth of Coleman A Young; civil rights leader (Mayor-Democrat-Detroit). [1]
- May 25
- Birth of Claude Akins in Nelson, Georgia, USA; actor (BJ and the Bear, Movin' On, Lobo). [1]
- Birth of Peder Lunde in Norway; yachtsman (Olympics-silver-1952). [1]
- May 27
- Birth of Yasuhiro Nakasone; Japanese Prime Minister (1982-87). [1]
- May 28
- Birth of Johnny Wayne in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; comedian (Wayne and Schuster on radio and TV, appeared on Ed Sullivan Show 52 times). [457]
- May 29
- Birth of Herb Shriner; humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show). [1]
- Birth of Isabel Dean in England; actress (Five Days One Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom). [1]
- June 6
- Birth of Richard Crane in Newcastle, Indiana, USA; actor (Surfside 6). [1]
- June 8
- Birth of Robert Preston in Newton, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter). [1]
- June 13
- Birth of Ben Johnson in Foraker, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger). [1]
- June 18
- Birth of Bob Carroll; singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, The Stranger). [1]
- June 19
- Birth of Evelle Jansen Younger; prosecutor of Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan. [1]
- June 27
- Birth of Adolph Kiefer; American 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936). [1]
- June 30
- Birth of Stuart Foster in Binghamton, New York, USA; singer (with Tommy Dorsey, Ina Ray Hutton, Galen Drake Show TV show). [1] [457]
- Birth of Susan Hayward in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa). [1]
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