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January 1 - Jon Corzine, American politician
January 1 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
January 2 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
January 2 - Calvin Hill, American football player
January 4 - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow
January 4 - Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
January 5 - Mercury Morris, American football player
January 6 - Sandy Denny, English singer and songwriter (d. 1978)
January 7 - Shobha De, Indian writer
January 8 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
January 8 - David Bowie, English musician
January 8 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
January 8 - Terry Sylvester, British singer and musician
January 9 - Ronnie Landfield, American artist
January 10 - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur
January 13 - Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków
January 13 - Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
January 14 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
January 15 - Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
January 16 - Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
January 16 - Harvey Proctor, British politician
January 16 - Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
January 18 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
January 18 - Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player
January 19 - Ann Compton, American news reporter
January 19 - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
January 19 - Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
January 20 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
January 21 - Jill Eikenberry, American actress
January 21 - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
January 21 - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
January 23 - Thomas R. Carper, American politician.
January 23 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
January 24 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
January 24 - Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)
January 25 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer
January 25 - Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
January 26 - Michel Sardou, French singer
January 26 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
January 27 - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
January 27 - Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
January 28 - Jeanne Shaheen, American politician
January 29 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist
January 29 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
January 29 - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
January 30 - Les Barker, English poet
January 30 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
January 31 - Jonathan Banks, American actor
January 31 - Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
February 1 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
February 1 - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
February 1 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
February 2 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress
February 3 - Paul Auster, American novelist
February 3 - Dave Davies, British musician (The Kinks)
February 3 - Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
February 3 - Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter
February 4 - Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
February 5 - Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
February 7 - Joe Shea, American journalist
February 9 - Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
February 9 - Joe Ely, American musician
February 9 - Major Harris, American singer
February 10 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
February 10 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
February 10 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
February 11 - Joselito, Spanish singer
February 11 - Kikko Matsuoka, Japanese actress
February 11 - Derek Shulman, English musician
February 12 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984)
February 13 - Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
February 14 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
February 14 - Judd Gregg, American politician
February 15 - John Coolidge Adams, American composer
February 15 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
February 15 - David Brown, American musician (Santana) (d. 2000)
February 15 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990)
February 18 - Dennis DeYoung, American musician (STYX)
February 18 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands,
February 18 - Carlos Lopes, Portuguese athlete
February 18 - Eliot Lance Engel, American politician
February 19 - Tim Shadbolt, mayor of Invercargill
February 20 - André van Duin, Dutch comedian
February 20 - Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive
February 20 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
February 20 - Peter Strauss, American actor
February 21 - Johnny Echols, American musician
February 21 - Olympia Snowe, American politician
February 21 - Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
February 22 - Carol Burns, Australian actress
February 23 - John McWethy, American journalist (d. 2008)
February 23 - Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician
February 24 - Rupert Holmes, English musician
February 24 - Edward James Olmos, American actor
February 25 - Lee Evans, American athlete
February 25 - Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground)
February 26 - Sandie Shaw, English singer
February 27 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
February 28 - Stephanie Beacham, English actress
March 1 - Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter
March 2 - Harry Redknapp, English football manager
March 3 - Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter
March 3 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)
March 3 - Clifton Snider, American poet and writer
March 4 - David Franzoni, American screenwriter
March 4 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
March 4 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
March 4 - Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
March 5 - Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer
March 5 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
March 5 - Kent Tekulve, American baseball player
March 6 - Kiki Dee, British singer
March 6 - Dick Fosbury, American athlete
March 6 - Martin Kove, American actor
March 6 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
March 6 - Rob Reiner, American actor
March 7 - Richard Lawson, American actor
March 7 - Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver
March 7 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
March 8 - Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)
March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
March 8 - Florentino Pérez, Spanish football executive
March 9 - Keri Hulme, New Zealandic writer
March 10 - Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
March 10 - Paul Condon, Baron Condon
March 10 - Bob Greene, American journalist
March 10 - Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist (Boston)
March 11 - Tristan Murail, French composer
March 12 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987)
March 12 - Mitt Romney, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
March 13 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
March 14 - Pam Ayres, British poet
March 14 - William J. Jefferson, American politician
March 15 - Ry Cooder, American guitarist
March 15 - Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor
March 16 - Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
March 17 - James Morrow, American author
March 17 - Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
March 17 - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
March 18 - B.J. Wilson, English drummer (d. 1990)
March 18 - Patrick Chesnais, French actor
March 18 - Patrick Barlow, English actor
March 18 - Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
March 18 - Heather Ryan, American model and Playmate of the Month
March 19 - Glenn Close, American actress
March 19 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
March 20 - John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
March 22 - James Patterson, American author
March 24 - Christine Gregoire, American politician
March 24 - Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
March 24 - Alan Sugar, English businessman
March 25 - Elton John, English singer and songwriter
March 26 - Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)
March 27 - Brian Jones, British balloonist
March 27 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
March 28 - John Landecker, American disk jockey
March 29 - Bobby Kimball, American singer
March 30 - Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist
March 31 - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, President of Colombia
April 1 - Alain Connes, French mathematician
April 1 - M, English singer
April 1 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player
April 2 - Emmylou Harris, American singer
April 2 - Camille Paglia, American feminist writer
April 4 - Ray Fosse, American baseball player and broadcaster
April 4 - Luke Halpin, American actor
April 4 - Wiranto, Indonesian general
April 5 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
April 6 - John Ratzenberger, American actor
April 7 - Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
April 7 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
April 7 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
April 8 - Tom DeLay, American politician
April 8 - Steve Howe, English guitarist (Yes
April 8 - Robert Kiyosaki, American investor
April 8 - Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter
April 8 - Pascal Lamy, Director-General of WTO
April 10 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
April 11 - Peter Riegert, American actor
April 11 - Meshach Taylor, American actor
April 11 - Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
April 12 - Tom Clancy, American author
April 12 - Woody Johnson, sports team owner
April 12 - Antonin Kratochvil photographer,
April 12 - David Letterman, American talk show host
April 13 - Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister
April 15 - Lois Chiles, American actress
April 15 - Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
April 15 - Mike Chapman, British songwriter
April 15 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American writer and television producer
April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
April 16 - Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter
April 17 - Linda Martin, Irish singer
April 17 - Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player
April 18 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
April 18 - Dorothy Lyman, American actress
April 18 - Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
April 18 - Cindy Pickett, American actress
April 18 - James Woods, American actor
April 19 - Murray Perahia, American pianist
April 19 - Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles)
April 20 - Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
April 20 - Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
April 20 - David Leland, British actor
April 21 - Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
April 21 - John Weider, British rock musician (Eric Burdon and the Animals
April 23 - Glenn Cornick, British musician (Jethro Tull)
April 23 - Bernadette Devlin, Irish politician
April 24 - Claude Dubois, Quebec singer and songwriter
April 24 - Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parliament
April 24 - Roger D. Kornberg, American chemist
April 25 - Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
April 25 - Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
April 26 - Warren Clarke, English actor
April 27 - Ann Peebles, American singer
April 27 - George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician
April 27 - Peter Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
April 27 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
April 29 - Serge Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
April 29 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
April 29 - Tommy James, American musician
April 29 - Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician
April 30 - Leslie Grantham, English actor
April 30 - Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer
April 30 - Mats Odell, Swedish politician
April 30 - Tom Køhlert, Brondby IF coach
May 1 - Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer
May 3 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
May 4 - Richard Jenkins, American actor
May 6 - Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
May 6 - Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
May 8 - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate
May 10 - Caroline Cooney, American author
May 10 - Jay Ferguson, American musician and composer
May 10 - Thomas Tessier, American author
May 11 - Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band)
May 12 - Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician
May 12 - Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor
May 12 - catherine yronwode, American writer and editor
May 13 - Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
May 14 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
May 15 - Graeham Goble, Australian musician
May 16 - Bill Smitrovich, American actor
May 18 - John Bruton, ninth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
May 19 - Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
May 19 - Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
May 19 - David Helfgott, Australian pianist
May 20 - Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive
May 21 - Bill Champlin, American singer
May 21 - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
May 23 - Bernard Comrie, English linguist
May 23 - Ann Hui, Hong Kong film director
May 23 - Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
May 24 - Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive
May 27 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
May 28 - Sondra Locke, American actress
May 28 - Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
May 28 - Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
May 29 - Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
May 29 - Anthony Geary, American actor
May 30 - Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian golfer
May 31 - Junior Campbell, British musician and songwriter (The Marmalade)
June 1 - Jonathan Pryce, British actor
June 1 - Ron Dennis, CBE
June 1 - Ronnie Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones)
June 2 - Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
June 3 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
June 3 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
June 3 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
June 4 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
June 5 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
June 5 - Tom Evans, English musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)
June 6 - David Blunkett, English politician
June 6 - Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
June 7 - Don Money, American baseball player
June 7 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
June 8 - Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist
June 9 - Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer
June 9 - John Gurda, American historian
June 10 - Ken Singleton, American baseball player
June 11 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
June 11 - Henry Cisneros, American politician
June 11 - Richard Palmer-James, British lyricist and guitarist (King Crimson and Supertramp)
June 11 - Bob Evans, British racing driver
June 13 - A. G. Lafley, American executive director
June 14 - Barry Melton, American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
June 15 - John Hoagland, American photographer
June 15 - Lee Purcell, American actress
June 16 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
June 17 - Christopher Allport, American actor (d. 2008)
June 17 - George S. Clinton, American composer and musician
June 17 - Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (d. 2000)
June 19 - Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
June 19 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
June 20 - Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
June 20 - Candy Clark, American actress
June 20 - Josef Clemens, German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
June 20 - Ivo Milazzo, Italian comic book artist
June 21 - Meredith Baxter, American actress
June 21 - Michael Gross, American actor
June 21 - Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer
June 21 - Joey Molland, English musician (Badfinger)
June 22 - Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)
June 22 - Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana
June 22 - David Lander, American actor and baseball scout
June 22 - Howard Kaylan, founding member of The Turtles
June 22 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
June 23 - Bryan Brown, Australian actor
June 24 - Peter Weller, American actor
June 24 - Mick Fleetwood, English musician (Fleetwood Mac)
June 25 - Jimmie Walker, American actor (Good Times)
June 28 - Robert Bondi, American politician
June 28 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
June 28 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
June 28 - Mark Helprin, American writer
June 29 - Michael Carter, British actor
June 29 - Richard Lewis, American comedian
July 1 - Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999)
July 1 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
July 2 - Larry David, American television producer
July 3 - Dave Barry, American humorist and author
July 3 - Betty Buckley, American actress
July 4 - Morganna Roberts, American entertainer
July 6 - Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
July 6 - Lance Clemons, baseball player
July 7 - Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
July 7 - Howard Rheingold, American author
July 7 - Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
July 7 - Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family)
July 7 - Víctor Manuel, Spanish songwriter and singer
July 8 - Kim Darby, American actress
July 8 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
July 9 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
July 9 - Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
July 9 - O.J. Simpson, American football player and actor
July 10 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician
July 11 - Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
July 12 - Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby union footballer
July 12 - Richard C. McCarty, American professor of psychology
July 14 - Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
July 14 - Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius
July 15 - Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes)
July 16 - Alexis Herman, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor
July 16 - Assata Shakur, American activist
July 17 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
July 17 - Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
July 18 - Steve Forbes, American entrepreneur and politician
July 18 - Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
July 19 - Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
July 19 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
July 19 - Brian May, English musician (Queen)
July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist
July 20 - Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist
July 21 - Chetan Chauhan, Former Indian cricketer
July 22 - Albert Brooks, American comedian
July 22 - Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
July 22 - Don Henley, American musician (Eagles)
July 23 - Gardner Dozois, American author
July 23 - David Essex, English singer
July 23 - Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
July 24 - Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer
July 24 - Robert Hays, American actor
July 24 - Peter Serkin, American pianist
July 29 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
July 30 - William Atherton, American actor
July 30 - Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor
August 1 - Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
August 1 - Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman
August 2 - Massiel, Spanish singer
August 4 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
August 5 - Angry Anderson, Australian entertainer (Rose Tattoo)
August 5 - Bernie Carbo, American baseball player
August 5 - Rick Derringer, American musician
August 6 - Tony Dell, Australian cricketer
August 7 - Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian entertainer
August 8 - José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player
August 8 - Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
August 8 - Larry Wilcox, American actor
August 9 - Barbara Mason, American soul singer
August 9 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (d. 2000)
August 10 - Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
August 10 - Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
August 10 - Alan Ward, Former England cricketer
August 11 - Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician
August 12 - Ron Mael, American musician (Sparks)
August 12 - Sam Rosen, American sportscaster
August 13 - John Stocker, Canadian actor
August 13 - Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician
August 14 - Peter Christian, English actor
August 14 - Danielle Steel, American novelist
August 14 - Bruce Nash, American television producer
August 14 - Maddy Prior, English folk singer
August 15 - Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
August 15 - Jenny Hanley, British TV presenter
August 16 - Carol Moseley Braun, American politician and lawyer
August 16 - Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer
August 16 - Marc Messier, Canadian actor
August 17 - Gary Talley, American musician (Box Tops)
August 17 - Sylvia Nasar, German-born American economist and author
August 19 - Dave Dutton, English actor
August 19 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
August 19 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
August 20 - Alan Lee, English conceptual artist
August 22 - Cindy Williams, American actress
August 22 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
August 23 - Willy Russell, British playwright
August 23 - David Robb, British actor
August 24 - Anne Archer, American actress
August 24 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
August 24 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
August 24 - Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
August 26 - Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
August 27 - Barbara Bach, American actress
August 27 - Harry Reems, American actor
August 27 - John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
August 28 - Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
August 28 - Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
August 29 - Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
August 29 - James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
August 30 - Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
August 31 - Mona Marshall, American voice actress
August 31 - Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman
August 31 - Yumiko Ōshima, Japanese manga artist
August 31 - Somchai Wongsawat, Thai 26th Prime Minister
September 1 - Al Green, American politician
September 2 - Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan)
September 3 - Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
September 3 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
September 5 - Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008)
September 5 - Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
September 6 - Jane Curtin, American actress
September 6 - Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
September 6 - Sylvester James, American singer
September 8 - Ann Beattie, American writer
September 8 - Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist
September 9 - David Rosenboom, American composer
September 14 - Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, American singer (Sha Na Na)
September 14 - Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
September 16 - Russ Abbot, British comedian
September 16 - Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
September 17 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
September 18 - Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
September 19 - Lol Creme, English musician (10cc
September 20 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
September 20 - Bruce Pasternack, American CEO
September 20 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (d. 2008)
September 21 - Stephen King, American author
September 21 - Marsha Norman, American playwright
September 21 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
September 22 - Robert Morace, American writer
September 23 - Mary Kay Place, American actress
September 23 - Jerry Corbetta, American singer and musician (Sugarloaf)
September 23 - Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper)
September 24 - Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
September 25 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model
September 26 - Lynn Anderson, American country music singer
September 27 - Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
September 27 - Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
September 27 - Meat Loaf, American singer
September 27 - Liz Torres, American actress and singer
September 28 - Bob Carr, Australian politician
September 28 - Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician
September 29 - Martin Ferrero, American actor
September 30 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
September 30 - Dave Arneson, American game designer
September 30 - Rula Lenska,English Actress,
October 1 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist
October 1 - Stephen Collins, American actor
October 1 - Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician
October 1 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (d. 2006)
October 3 - John Perry Barlow, American musician
October 4 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
October 4 - Julien Clerc, French singer
October 4 - Jim Fielder, American bassist (Blood
October 5 - Brian Johnson, English singer (AC/DC)
October 6 - Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
October 8 - Emiel Puttemans, Belgian athlete
October 9 - France Gall, French singer
October 9 - William E. McAnulty, Jr.
October 9 - Tony Zappone, American broadcaster
October 10 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
October 11 - Al Atkins, English musician
October 11 - Lucas Papademos, Greek economist
October 11 - Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist
October 12 - Chris Wallace, American journalist
October 12 - George Lam, Hong Kong singer
October 13 - Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen)
October 13 - Jerry Trupiano, American sports broadcaster
October 13 - Alan Wakeman, English saxophonist (Soft Machine)
October 14 - Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
October 16 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
October 16 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
October 16 - David Zucker, American film director
October 17 - Gene Green, American politician
October 17 - Michael McKean, American actor
October 18 - Job Cohen, Dutch politician
October 18 - Joe Morton, American actor
October 18 - Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
October 18 - Paul Chuckle, British comedian
October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
October 22 - Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman
October 22 - Haley Barbour, American politician
October 24 - Kevin Kline, American actor
October 25 - Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
October 26 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
October 26 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
October 26 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
October 26 - Ian Ashley, British racing driver
October 29 - Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
October 29 - Helen Coonan, Australian politician
October 30 - Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
October 31 - Deidre Hall, American actress
October 31 - Frank Shorter, American runner
November 1 - Jim Steinman, American songwriter
November 3 - Mazie Hirono, American politician
November 5 - Peter Noone, English musician (Herman's Hermits)
November 6 - Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
November 6 - George Young, Australian musician (AC/DC)
November 7 - Bob Anderson, English darts player
November 7 - Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
November 7 - Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist
November 8 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
November 9 - Robert David Hall, American actor
November 10 - Greg Lake, British musician (Emerson
November 10 - Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
November 10 - Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese military commander (d. 1982)
November 10 - Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
November 12 - Ron Bryant, American baseball player
November 12 - Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter
November 12 - Buck Dharma, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
November 13 - Toy Caldwell, American guitarist (The Marshall Tucker Band) (d. 1993)
November 13 - Gene Garber, American baseball player
November 13 - Joe Mantegna, American actor
November 14 - Bharathan, Malayalam film director (d. 1998)
November 14 - P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
November 15 - Bill Richardson, American politician
November 16 - Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer
November 17 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
November 17 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
November 18 - Jameson Parker, American actor
November 19 - Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
November 19 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
November 20 - Joe Walsh, American musician
November 22 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
November 22 - Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
November 22 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
November 24 - Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan
November 24 - Dwight Schultz, American actor
November 25 - Jonathan Kaplan, American filmmaker
November 25 - John Larroquette, American actor
November 25 - Tracey Walter, American actor
November 26 - Susanne Zenor, American actress
November 26 - Roger Wehrli, American football player
November 28 - Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992)
November 28 - Maria Farantouri, Greek singer
November 29 - Petra Kelly, German politician (d. 1992)
November 29 - Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist
November 30 - David Mamet, American playwright
November 30 - Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
December 1 - Alain Bashung, French singer
December 1 - Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league footballer
December 2 - Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
December 2 - Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
December 2 - Tommy Jenkins, English football player
December 4 - Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues
December 5 - Bruce Golding, Jamaican politician
December 5 - Tony Gregory, Irish politician
December 5 - Jim Messina, American musician (Buffalo Springfield
December 5 - Jim Plunkett, American football player
December 6 - Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
December 6 - Miroslav Vitous, Czech jazz musician
December 7 - Johnny Bench, American baseball player
December 7 - Tony Thomas, American TV and film producer
December 7 - Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player
December 8 - Gregg Allman, American musician
December 8 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist
December 8 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi writer
December 9 - Tom Daschle, American politician
December 9 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
December 10 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
December 10 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
December 10 - Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
December 13 - Darlene Cates, American actress
December 13 - Dave Hamilton, American baseball player
December 14 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
December 14 - Linda Sutton, English artist
December 15 - Rodney Bingenheimer, Pioneering American radio personality
December 16 - Ben Cross, English actor
December 16 - Vincent Matthews, American sprinter
December 17 - Wes Studi, American actor
December 20 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
December 21 - Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer
December 21 - Paco de Lucía, Spanish musician
December 24 - Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC
December 26 - James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
December 26 - Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
December 27 - Bill Eadie, professional wrestler known as "Ax" of Demolition
December 27 - Tracy Nelson, American blues singer
December 27 - Mickey Redmond, National Hockey League player
December 27 - Janet Perry, American soprano
December 27 - Willy Polleunis, Belgian athlete
December 28 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player (d. 2000)
December 29 - Ted Danson, American actor
December 29 - Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998)
December 29 - Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998)
December 30 - Michael Burns, American historian
December 30 - Jeff Lynne, English musician (ELO)
December 31 - Burton Cummings, Canadian keyboardist (The Guess Who)
December 31 - Tim Matheson, American actor
December 31 - Rita Lee, Brazilian Rock Star

Deaths

January 9 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
January 11 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
January 15 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
January 17 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
January 17 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
January 20 - Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (b. 1911)
January 25 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
January 26 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)
January 26 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
January 28 - Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
February 3 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887)
February 26 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician
March 5 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
March 12 - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
March 18 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
March 20 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
March 23 - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
March 28 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
April 1 - King George II of Greece, (b. 1890)
April 4 - William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
April 6 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
April 7 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)
April 11 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
April 16 - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
April 18 - Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887)
April 20 - King Christian X of Denmark, (b. 1870)
April 24 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
April 24 - Hans Biebow, German war criminal (by execution; b. 1902)
May 2 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
May 5 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
May 8 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
May 16 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist
May 17 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
May 20 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist
May 24 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
May 27 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
May 28 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
May 30 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
June 10 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
June 18 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
June 20 - Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (b. 1906)
June 24 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee
June 26 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
July 9 - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
July 12 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
July 15 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
July 16 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
July 19 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
July 19 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
July 30 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
August 8 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
August 21 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
August 28 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
September 1 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
September 20 - Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
September 26 - Hugh Lofting, English writer (b. 1886)
October 2 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist
October 6 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
October 26 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
November 1 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
November 14 - Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
November 17 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist
November 25 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
November 28 - Philippe Leclerc, French general (b. 1902)
December 1 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
December 1 - G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
December 7 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president
December 7 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
December 13 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
December 14 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
December 14 - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
December 15 - Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
December 22 - Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
December 22 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
December 25 - Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
December 28 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (b. 1869)
December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
December 30 - Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter

Events

January 1 - The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany.
January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
January 9 - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
January 15 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
January 22 - KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
February 3 - The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
February 10 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
February 16 - Canadians granted Canadian citizenship after 80 years of being British subjects. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
February 17 - The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.
February 20 - State of Prussia ceases to exist.
February 21 - In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
February 23 - The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
February 28 - 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
March 1 - The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
March 7 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
March 12 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
March 25 - An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
April 6 - The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.
April 9 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
April 9 - The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
April 15 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
April 16 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
April 16 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
April 28 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
April 30 - In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
May 3 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
May 22 - Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
June 5 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
June 10 - Saab produces its first automobile.
June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
June 24 - Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
July 4 - The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries
July 5 - Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League. (Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League 11 weeks earlier.)
July 6 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
July 7 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
July 8 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
July 10 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
July 11 - The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
July 19 - Prime minister of shadow Burma government ,Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members were assassinated by British , which resulted in the political chaos in the country lasting until now.
July 20 - Police in Burma arrest former Prime Minister U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister U Aung San and seven members of his cabinet.
July 20 - The Viceroy of India says the people of the Northwest Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join Pakistan rather than India.
July 26 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
August 4 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
August 7 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 7 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
August 8 - Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
August 14 - Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth.
August 15 - India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth , Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the nation with the Indian Declaration of Independence and takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.
August 15 - Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.
August 17 - The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
September 9 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
September 15 - RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
September 15 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750.
September 16 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River erea, at least 1,930 killed.
September 17 - James V. Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
September 18 - The United States Air Force becomes an independent service.
September 24 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
September 30 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
September 30 - The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
October 1 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
October 5 - The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
October 14 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
October 20 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
October 24 - Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
October 26 - The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
October 26 - The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
October 30 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
November 2 - In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
November 6 - Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
November 17 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
November 18 - Ballantyne's Department Store fire, Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 (New Zealand's worst ever fire)
November 20 - The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
November 24 - Red Scare: After the so-called Hollywood 10 refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against them.
November 25 - Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
November 25 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
November 29 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine (The Partition Plan).
December 2 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
December 6 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
December 14 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.
December 16 - William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
December 22 - The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution.
December 23 - The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
December 25 - The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
December 30 - King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet-backed Communist government of Romania.

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