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List
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- December 1
- 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)
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January
- January 3
- Dabney Coleman, American actor
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- January 1
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- September 30
- Jurek Becker, Polish-born German writer (d. 1997)
- Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian composer
October
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- January 1
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- January 1
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- January 2
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- 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)
- Crew of Apollo 1 (launch pad fire):
- January 28 – Leonhard Seppala, Norwegian-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher (b. 1877)
- January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1909)
February
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- January 3
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- September – Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (b. 1924)[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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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List
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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January
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1928)
- July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)
- July 26
- Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)
- Russi Taylor, American voice actress (b. 1944)
- July 27 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist (b. 1931)
- July 28 – George Hilton, Uruguayan actor (b. 1934)
- July 29 – Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower (b. 1933)
- July 31 – Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director (b. 1928)
August
- August 1
- Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
- D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
- Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer (b. 1943)
- August 3
- Nikolai Kardashev, Russian astrophysicist (b. 1932)
- Thomas Remengesau Sr., Palauan politician, 2nd Vice President of Palau (b. 1929)
- Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)
- August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1926)
- August 5 – Toni Morrison, American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor (b. 1931)
- August 6 – Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)
- August 7 – Kary Mullis, American biochemist (b. 1944)
- August 8
- Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (b. 1932)
- Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
- August 9
- Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1938)
- Fahrudin Jusufi, Kosovar-born Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
- August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (b. 1953)
- August 11
- Walter Martínez, Honduran footballer (b. 1982)
- Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1931)
- August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1956)
- August 16
- Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Dutch royal (b. 1947)
- Peter Fonda, American actor (b. 1940)
- Felice Gimondi, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1942)
- José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (b. 1940)
- Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and writer (b. 1933)
- August 17
- Cedric Benson, American professional football player (b. 1982)
- Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (b. 1938)
- August 19 – Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
- August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Jordanian princess, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
- August 22 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
- August 23
- David Koch, American businessman, philanthropist and political activist (b. 1940)
- Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer (b. 1939)
- August 24
- Arun Jaitley, Indian politician and attorney (b. 1952)
- Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (b. 1963)
- August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer (b. 1937)
- August 26 – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (b. 1928)
- August 27 – Dawda Jawara, Gambian politician, 1st President of the Gambia (b. 1924)
- August 28
- Michel Aumont, French actor (b. 1936)
- Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer (b. 1947)
- August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (b. 1923)
- August 30
- Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1941)
- Valerie Harper, American actress (b. 1939)
- August 31
- Anthoine Hubert, French professional racing driver (b. 1996)
- Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (b. 1930)
September
- September 2 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (b. 1934)
- September 3
- Halvard Hanevold, Norwegian biathlete (b. 1969)
- Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer and film director (b. 1944)
- Carol Lynley, American actress (b. 1942)
- José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Colombian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1919)
- September 4 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (b. 1922)
- September 5 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1940)
- September 6 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
- September 8 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter, music producer and composer (b. 1946)
- September 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (b. 1924)
- September 11
- B. J. Habibie, Indonesian politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (b. 1936)
- Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter, and visual artist (b. 1961)
- September 12 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)
- September 13
- Bruno Grandi, Italian sports executive (b. 1934)
- Rudi Gutendorf, German footballer and manager (b. 1926)
- György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and essayist (b. 1933)
- Eddie Money, American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1949)
- September 15
- Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
- Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi, Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
- Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1944)
- September 16 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (b. 1928)
- September 17
- Jessica Jaymes, American pornographic actress (b. 1979)
- Imata Kabua, Marshallese politician, 2nd President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1943)
- September 18 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (b. 1976)
- September 19
- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 14th Prime Minister and 2nd President of Tunisia (b. 1936)
- Charles Gérard, French actor (b. 1922)
- Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (b. 1925)
- Barron Hilton, American businessman, philanthropist and sportsman (b. 1927)
- September 21
- Sid Haig, American actor (b. 1939)
- Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot (b. 1937)
- Günter Kunert, German writer (b. 1929)
- September 22 – Ivan Kizimov, Russian equestrian (b. 1928)
- September 23 – Robert Hunter, American lyricist, poet and musician (b. 1941)
- September 25 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (b. 1927)
- September 26
- Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (b. 1932)
- William Levada, American cardinal (b. 1936)
- Gennady Manakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950)
- September 28
- José José, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1948)
- Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian film and theater director (b. 1933)
- September 30
- Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
- Jessye Norman, American opera singer and recitalist (b. 1945)
October
- October 1
- Karel Gott, Czech singer and painter (b. 1939)
- Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (b. 1926)
- October 2
- Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer (b. 1935)
- Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (b. 1987)
- October 3 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, Acting Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
- October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
- October 6
- Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)
- Martin Lauer, German athlete (b. 1937)
- Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
- October 8 – Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1924)
- October 9 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (b. 1937)
- October 10 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
- October 11
- Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
- Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
- October 12
- Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic (b. 1962)
- Hevrin Khalaf, Syrian politician and activist (b. 1984)
- Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (b. 1936)
- October 13 – Charles Jencks, American architect, cultural theorist and philanthropist (b. 1939)
- October 14
- Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer (b. 1930)
- Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (b. 1994)
- October 15 – Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress (b. 1929)
- October 16 – John Tate, American mathematician (b. 1925)
- October 17
- Alicia Alonso, Cuban prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1920)
- Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)
- Bill Macy, American actor (b. 1922)
- Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (b. 1924)
- October 18 – Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
- October 19 – Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (b. 1967)
- October 21 – Lho Shin-yong, 16th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1930)
- October 22
- Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor (b. 1927)
- Marieke Vervoort, Belgian wheelchair racer (b. 1979)
- October 26
- Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete (b. 1948)
- Robert Evans, American film producer and studio executive (b. 1930)
- October 27
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIL (b. 1971)
- Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (b. 1942)
- John Conyers, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1929)
- October 28 – Kay Hagan, American lawyer, banking executive, and politician (b. 1953)
- October 29 – John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (b. 1943)
November
- November 2
- Norbert Eder, German footballer (b. 1955)
- Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (b. 1930)
- Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (b. 1940)
- Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
- November 4 – Jacques Dupont, French Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1928)
- November 5 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
- November 6 – Jan Stráský, Czech politician, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1940)
- November 7
- Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
- Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (b. 1927)
- Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (b. 1938)
- November 8 – Anatoly Krutikov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
- November 10 – István Szívós, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1948)
- November 11 – Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (b. 1933)
- November 12 – Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (b. 1955)
- November 13
- Kieran Modra, Australian swimmer and cyclist (b. 1972)
- Raymond Poulidor, French professional racing cyclist (b. 1936)
- November 14 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (b. 1932)
- November 15 – Harrison Dillard, American track and field athlete (b. 1923)
- November 16 – John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (b. 1947)
- November 17 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician and diplomat, Acting Prime Minister (b. 1923)
- 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, 7th 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, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1923)
- Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1943)
- November 27
- Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (b. 1984)
- Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher (b. 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
- 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)
- 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 Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1954)
Popular Television Shows:[edit]
List
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- All in the Family (1971-1979)
- American Dad!
- Archer (2009-2023)
- Arrow (2012-2020)
- Arrested Development (2003-2006) (2013-2019)
- Barney Miller (1975-1982)
- Benson (1979-1986)
- Better Call Saul (2015-2022)
- Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000)
- Blue Bloods
- Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)
- Bob's Burgers
- BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)
- Bones (2005-2017)
- Bonanza (1959-1973)
- Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
- Broad City (2014-2019)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021)
- 2 Broke Girls (2011-2017)
- Burn Notice (2007-2013)
- Charlie's Angels (1976-1981)
- Cheers (1982-1993)
- Coach (1989-1997)
- Community (2009-2015)
- Cougar Town (2009-2015)
- Criminal Minds (2005-2020)
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2015)
- CSI: Miami (2002-2012)
- CSI: NY (2004-2013)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Dallas (1978-1991)
- Dave's World (1993-1997)
- Deadwood (2004-2006)
- Desperate Housewives (2004-2012)
- A Different World (1987-1993)
- Diff'rent Strokes (1978-1986)
- Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989-1993)
- Downton Abbey (2010-2015)
- Drake & Josh (2004-2007)
- Duck Dynasty (2012-2017)
- Dynasty (1981-1989)
- Everybody Hates Chris (2005-2009)
- Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005)
- Family Guy
- Family Matters (1989-1998)
- Fantasy Island (1977-1984)
- Fear the Walking Dead (2015-2023)
- Frasier (1993-2004)
- Friends (1994-2004)
- Fringe (2008-2013)
- Full House (1987-1995)
- Fuller House (2016-2020)
- Futurama (1999-2013)
- Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
- Get Smart (1965-1970)
- Glee (2009-2015)
- Good Times (1974-1979)
- Gossip Girl (2007-2012)
- Gotham (2014-2019)
- Grace Under Fire (1993-1998)
- Grace and Frankie (2015-2022)
- Grey's Anatomy
- Growing Pains (1985-1992)
- Gunsmoke (1955-1975)
- Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017)
- Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980)
- Hawaii Five-O (2010-2020)
- Highway to Heaven (1984-1989)
- Hill Street Blues (1981-1987)
- Home Improvement (1991-1999)
- Homeland (2011-2020)
- Hot in Cleveland (2010-2015)
- House of Cards (2013-2018)
- How to Get Away with Murder
- Hunter (1984-1991)
- I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970)
- Ice Road Truckers (2007-2017)
- JAG (1995-2005)
- King of the Hill (1997-2010)
- Last Man Standing (2011-2021)
- Laverne & Shirley (1976-1983)
- Law & Order (1990-2010)
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001-2011)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Lost (2004-2010)
- Lou Grant (1977-1982)
- Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983)
- Mad Men (2007-2015)
- Madame Secretary (2014-2019)
- Martin (1992-1997)
- Matlock (1986-1992)
- M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
- Maude (1972-1978)
- McHale's Navy (1962-1966)
- Mike & Molly (2010-2016)
- Mission: Impossible (1966-1973)
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001)
- Modern Family (2009-2020)
- Mom (2013-2021)
- Monk (2002-2010)
- Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996)
- Murphy Brown (1988-1998, 2018)
- Nashville (2012-2018)
- NCIS
- NCIS: Los Angeles (2009-2023)
- NCIS: New Orleans (2014-2021)
- New Girl (2011-2018)
- Newhart (1982-1990)
- Night Court (1984-1992)
- NYPD Blue (1993-2005)
- Only Murders in the Building
- Oz (1997-2003)
- Ozark (2017-2022)
- Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
- Pawn Stars
- Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)
- Peyton Place (1964-1969)
- Preacher (2016-2019)
- Prison Break (2005-2009, 2017)
- Psych (2006-2014)
- Ray Donovan (2013-2020)
- Rhoda (1974-1978)
- Robot Chicken
- Roseanne (1988-1997, 2018)
- Royal Pains (2009-2016)
- Rugrats (1991-2004)
- Sanford and Son (1972-1977)
- Seinfeld (1989-1998)
- Sesame Street
- Sex and the City (1998-2004)
- Shameless (2011-2021)
- Silicon Valley (2014-2019)
- Soap (1977-1981)
- Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014)
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- South Park
- Star Trek (1966-1969)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)
- Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001)
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021-2024)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2014, 2020)
- Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018)
- Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007)
- Step by Step (1991-1998)
- Stranger Things
- Succession (2018-2023)
- Suits (2011-2019)
- Supernatural (2005-2020)
- Superstore (2015-2021)
- That '70s Show (1998-2006)
- 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
- 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)
- Young Sheldon
- Z Nation (2014-2018)
Popular in the 1970's:[edit]
List
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- 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:[edit]
List
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- 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:[edit]
List
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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
- 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)
- 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)
- Wanda Sykes
- Kenan Thompson
- Lily Tomlin
- Kristen Wiig
- Robin Williams (1951-2014)
- Jonathan Winters (1925-2013)
- Henry Winkler
Popular Country musicians and singers:[edit]
List
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- 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
List of Famous Criminals:[edit]
List
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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)