Births 1927

1 births

1.1 january
1.2 february
1.3 march
1.4 april
1.5 may
1.6 june
1.7 july
1.8 august
1.9 september
1.10 october
1.11 november
1.12 december

births
january

barbara rush



johnnie ray



olof palme



january 1

vernon l. smith, american economist, nobel prize laureate
doak walker, american football player (d. 1998)


january 4 – barbara rush, american actress
january 5 – satguru sivaya subramuniyaswami, american-born hindu guru (d. 2001)
january 8 – tim flood, irish hurler (d. 2014)
january 10

gisele mackenzie, canadian-born singer (d. 2003)
johnnie ray, american singer (d. 1990)
otto stich, member of swiss federal council (d. 2012)


january 13

brock adams, american politician (d. 2004)
sydney brenner, south african biologist, nobel prize laureate


january 15 – kirti nidhi bista, nepali politician (d. 2017)
january 17

thomas anthony dooley iii, american physician , humanitarian (d. 1961)
eartha kitt, african-american actress , singer (d. 2008)


january 24

marvin kaplan, american actor (d. 2016)
lasse pöysti, finnish writer , playwright


january 25

vivian brown, american celebrity icon (d. 2014)
marian brown, american celebrity icon (d. 2013)
antônio carlos jobim, brazilian composer (d. 1994)
gregg palmer, american actor (d. 2015)


january 26 – josé azcona del hoyo, 26th president of honduras (d. 2005)
january 27 – bob demoss, american football player (d. 2017)
january 28

per oscarsson, swedish actor (d. 2010)
hiroshi teshigahara, japanese director (d. 2001)


january 29

edward abbey, american environmentalist (d. 1989)
lewis urry, canadian inventor (d. 2004)


january 30

olof palme, 2-time prime minister of sweden (d. 1986)
roberto gottardi, italian architect (d. 2017)
bendapudi venkata satyanarayana, indian dermatologist (d. 2005)


january 31 – jean speegle howard, american actress (d. 2000)

february

sidney poitier



emmanuelle riva



february 1 – galway kinnell, american poet (d. 2014)
february 2

stan getz, american musician (d. 1991)
doris sams, american female professional baseball player (d. 2012)


february 3

val doonican, irish singer , entertainer (d. 2015)
joseph a. palaia, american politician (d. 2016)
blas ople, filipino politician (d. 2003)
sarah jiménez, mexican artist (d. 2017)
vasant sarwate, indian cartoonist , writer (d. 2016)


february 4 – horst ehmke, german lawyer, law professor , politician (d. 2017)
february 7

juliette gréco, french singer , actress
vladimir kuts, russian runner (d. 1975)


february 10

leontyne price, african-american soprano
alma adamkienė, former first lady of lithuania


february 11

nalda bird, american female professional baseball player (d. 2004)
robert squires, royal navy officer (d. 2016)


february 12 – rita meyer, american female professional baseball player (d. 1992)
february 13 – buck hill, american jazz tenor , soprano saxophonist (d. 2017)
february 14

seizō katō, japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
lois maxwell, canadian actress (d. 2007)


february 15

harvey korman, american actor , comedian (d. 2008)
luis gimeno, uruguayan-born mexican actor (d. 2017)


february 16 – june brown, british actress
february 17 – john selfridge, american mathematician (d. 2010)
february 20

roy cohn, american lawyer , anti-communist (d. 1986)
sidney poitier, african-american actor , film director


february 21

erma bombeck, american writer , humorist (d. 1996)
hubert de givenchy, french fashion designer


february 22 – emil bobu, romanian communist activist , politician (d. 2014)
february 23

régine crespin, french operatic soprano (d. 2007)
mirtha legrand, argentinian actress , tv presenter
silvia legrand, argentinian actress


february 24

mark lane, american conspiracy theorist (d. 2016)
emmanuelle riva, french actress (d. 2017)


february 25

ralph stanley, american bluegrass banjo player , vocalist (d. 2016)
dick jones, american actor , singer (d. 2014)


february 26 – tom kennedy, american game show host
february 27 – lynn cartwright, american actress (d. 2004)

march

harry belafonte



jack cassidy



james broderick



gabriel garcía márquez



cesar chavez



march 1

george o. abell, american astronomer, professor @ ucla, science popularizer, , skeptic (d. 1983)
harry belafonte, american musician , actor
robert bork, american conservative law professor (d. 2012)


march 2 – roger walkowiak, french road bicycle racer (d. 2017)
march 3 – pierre aubert, member of swiss federal council (d. 2016)
march 4

philip batt, 29th governor of u.s. state of idaho
thayer david, american actor (d. 1978)
robert orben, american comedy writer
dick savitt, american tennis player


march 5 – jack cassidy, american actor of stage, film , screen (d. 1976)
march 6

william j. bell, american soap creator (d. 2005)
gordon cooper, american astronaut (d. 2004)
gabriel garcía márquez, colombian author, nobel prize laureate (d. 2014)


march 7 – james broderick, american actor (d. 1982)
march 8

dick hyman, american composer , pianist
stanisław kania, polish communist politician


march 10

jupp derwall, german football player , manager (d. 2007)
marlia hardi, indonesian actress (d. 1984)
bill fischer, american football offensive lineman (d. 2017)
barbara sinatra american model, wife of frank sinatra (d. 2017)


march 11

ron todd, british trade union leader (d. 2005)
joachim fuchsberger, german-australian actor, television host, lyricist , businessman (d. 2014)


march 12 – raúl alfonsín, former president of argentina (d. 2009)
march 13

robert denning, american interior designer (d. 2005)
jozef zlatňanský, roman catholic bishop (d. 2017)


march 15

annastasia batikis, greek-american female professional baseball player (d. 2016)
hanns-joachim friedrichs, german journalist (d. 1995)


march 16

vladimir komarov, russian cosmonaut (d. 1967)
daniel patrick moynihan, u.s. senator new york (d. 2003)


march 17 – roberto suazo córdova, president of honduras
march 18 – george plimpton, american writer , actor (d. 2003)
march 20

john joubert, south african–born british composer
earlene risinger, american professional baseball player (d. 2008)


march 21 – hans-dietrich genscher, german politician (d. 2016)
march 23 – mato damjanović, croatian chess grandmaster (d. 2011)
march 24 – martin walser, german author
march 25

tina anselmi, italian politician (d. 2016)
bill barilko, canadian hockey player (d. 1951)
monique van vooren, belgian-american actress


march 26 – robert rosencrans, american public affairs television network (d. 2016)
march 27

mstislav rostropovich, russian cellist , conductor (d. 2007)
karl stotz, austrian football player (d. 2017)


march 29 – john vane, british pharmacologist, nobel prize laureate (d. 2004)
march 31

césar chávez, american labor activist, united farm workers founder (d. 1993)
william daniels, american actor



april

Éva székely



pope benedict xvi



margot honecker



april 1

maria eugénia, portuguese actress (d. 2016)
peter cundall, australian horticulturist , television presenter


april 2

rita gam, american actress (d. 2016)
ferenc puskás, hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
kenneth tynan, english theatre critic (d. 1980)


april 3

richard haynes, american lawyer (d. 2017)
Éva székely, hungarian swimmer


april 4 – frederick i. ordway iii, american space scientist (d. 2014)
april 5

chao-li chi, shanxi-born actor (d. 2010)
thanin kraivichien, thai lawyer , politician


april 6

gerry mulligan, american musician (d. 1996)
harry beitzel, australian football umpire , broadcaster (d. 2017)


april 8 – tilly armstrong (alias tania langley , kate alexander), british writer (d. 2010)
april 10 – marshall warren nirenberg, american scientist, nobel prize laureate (d. 2010)
april 14 – alan macdiarmid, new zealand chemist, nobel prize laureate (d. 2007)
april 15 – robert mills, american physicist (d. 1999)
april 16

doris mclemore, american linguist (d. 2016)
pope benedict xvi
peter mark richman, american actor


april 17 – margot honecker, east german politician (d. 2016)
april 18

samuel p. huntington, american political scientist (d. 2008)
charles pasqua, french businessman , politician (d. 2015)


april 20

phil hill, american race car driver (d. 2008)
karl alexander müller, swiss physicist, nobel prize laureate


april 21 – daniel mckinnon, american ice hockey player (d. 2017)
april 26

anita darian, american singer , actress (d. 2015)
harry gallatin, american basketballer , coach (d. 2015)


april 27 – coretta scott king, african-american civil rights leader, wife of dr. martin luther king jr. (d. 2006)
april 29 – lois florreich, american female professional baseball player (d. 1991)
april 30 – ellen alaküla, estonian actress (d. 2011)

may

albert zafy



manfred eigen



may 1

duncan mcmullin, new zealand jurist (d. 2017)
albert zafy, 3rd president of madagascar (d. 2017)


may 3 – jean-paul martin-du-gard, french runner (d. 2017)
may 4

hal hudson, american professional baseball player (d. 2016)
terry scott, english actor , comedian (d. 1994)


may 5 – pat carroll, american actress
may 6 – ettore manni, italian actor (d. 1979)
may 9

manfred eigen, german biophysicist, recipient of nobel prize in chemistry
wim thoelke, german television entertainer (d. 1995)


may 11

bernard fox, english actor (bewitched) (d. 2016)
mort sahl, canadian-born comedian, political commentator
gene savoy, american author, explorer, scholar , cleric (d. 2009)


may 13 – herbert ross, american film director (d. 2001)
may 17 – marilyn hall, canadian-born american television producer (d. 2017)
may 20 – bud grant, canadian , american football coach
may 21 – chuck stewart, american photographer (d. 2017)
may 22 – george andrew olah, hungarian-born chemist, nobel prize laureate (d. 2017)
may 23 – dieter hildebrandt, german comedian (d. 2013)
may 25

robert ludlum, american author (d. 2001)
paul oliver, british architecture , blues historian (d. 2017)


may 26 – endel tulving, estonian-canadian experimental psychologist , cognitive neuroscientist
may 28

ralph carmichael, american composer , arranger
william a. hilliard, american journalist (d. 2017)


may 30

byron dobell, american writer, editor, , artist (d. 2017)
clint walker, american actor
elly stone, american singer



june

jerry stiller



frank sherwood rowland



june 3 – boots randolph, american saxophone player (d. 2007)
june 4 – geoffrey palmer (actor), british actor time goes (uk tv series)
june 6

alan seymour, australian playwright , author (d. 2015)
ralph wetton, english professional footballer (d. 2017)


june 7 – herbert r. axelrod, american ichthyologist , musical instrument collector (d. 2017)
june 8 – jerry stiller, american comedian , actor
june 10

ladislao kubala, hungarian football player , manager (d. 2002)
bede morris, australian immunologist (d. 1988)
sunshine parker, american actor (d. 1999)


june 12 – al fairweather, scottish jazz musician (d. 1993)
june 16

yoshiro hayashi, japanese politician (d. 2017)
ariano suassuna, brazilian playwright , author (d. 2014)


june 17 – wally wood, american cartoonist (d. 1981)
june 18 – paul eddington, british actor (d. 1995)
june 19 – luciano benjamín menéndez, argentine general
june 20 – bernard cahier, french f1 photo journalist (d. 2008)
june 21

iranganie serasinghe, sri lankan actress
hugh rossi, british conservative politician
don jessop, australian politician
carl stokes, american politician (d. 1996)


june 22 – karl schügerl, hungarian chemical engineering studies
june 23

john habgood, british retired anglican bishop, academic, , life peer
leonid bogdanov, soviet olympic fencer
bob fosse, american choreographer , director (d. 1987)


june 24

frederick vreeland, american diplomat , writer
hal nerdal, australian skier
martin lewis perl, american physicist, nobel prize laureate (d. 2014)
james b. edwards, american politician , administrator (d. 2014)


june 25

arnold wolfendale, british astronomer
patricia martin bates, canadian artist
gerald freedman, american theatre director, librettist, , lyricist, , college dean
kjell tånnander, swedish decathlete
chuck smith, american pastor (d. 2013)


june 26

jerry schatzberg, photographer , film director
ben turok, former anti-apartheid activist, economics professor , former south african member of parliament , member of african national congress


june 27

gracia barrios (es), chilean painter
john barber, american professional basketball player
cino tortorella, italian television presenter (d. 2017)
bobby myers, american nascar driver (d. 1957)


june 28

correlli barnett, english military historian
dick lane, american professional baseball player
boris shilkov, soviet speed skater (d. 2015)
frank sherwood rowland, american chemist, nobel prize laureate (d. 2012)


june 29

viola myers, canadian sprinter
pierre savard, canadian politician
roy radner, american economist
marie thérèse killens, canadian politician
bert hubbard, american synchronized swimmer, choreographer , coach
pat mcgeer, canadian physician, professor, baskebtall player , medical researcher
kenneth snelson, american contemporary sculptor , photographer (d. 2016)


june 30

shirley fry irvin, american tennis player
frank mccabe, american basketball player
wayne knox, american politician
mario lanfranchi, italian film, theatre , television director, screenwriter, producer, collector , actor



july

gina lollobrigida



janet leigh



kurt masur



july 1

chandra shekhar, 8th prime minister of india (d. 2007)
mirghani alnasri, sudanese politician
richard chaloner, 3rd baron gisborough, british peer
winfield dunn, politician; governor of tennessee
v. rajagopal, indian cricket umpire
joseph martin sartoris, american bishop
leo klejn, russian archaeologist, anthropologist , philologist


july 2

james mackay, baron mackay of clashfern, british advocate
fern villeneuve, canadian army officer


july 3

salome Þorkelsdóttir, icelandic politician , first woman speaker of unicameral althing
tim o connor, american actor
peter muller, canadian architect
ken rowlands, welsh boxer


july 4

gina lollobrigida, italian actress
neil simon, american playwright, screenwriter , author
teresita castillo, filipino religious (d. 2016)
derek bond, english bishop


july 5

kah kyung cho, korean-american philosopher
thomas fleming, american military historian , historical novelist


july 6

dolores claman, canadian composer , pianist
alan freeman, australian-born broadcaster , disc jockey (d. 2006)
janet leigh, american actress (d. 2004)
pat paulsen, american comedian , political satirist (d. 1997)


july 7

henri dirickx, belgian international footballer played
doc severinsen american musician johnny carson show
martin ransohoff, american cinema , television producer, , member of ransohoff family
george c. lodge, american professor , former politician
lewis arthur tambs, american ambassador colombia , costa rica
henry kajura, ugandan administrator , politician


july 8

lisa lu, chinese-born american actress , singer
maurice hayes, irish politician
khensur lungri namgyel, tibetan religious leader
cal christensen, american basketball player (d. 2011)


july 9

ed ames, american popular singer , actor
red kelly, canadian ice hockey player
richard n. gardner, united states ambassador spain , united states ambassador italy
ronnie stonham, special assistant director of personnel @ bbc (d. 2014)
david diop, french west african poet (d. 1960)


july 10

elvira corona, american dancer , actress
park seong-tae, south korean sports shooter
grigory barenblatt, russian mathematician
jack kelley, american ice hockey coach
david dinkins, african-american mayor of new york city 1989 through 1993
william smithers, american actor
marcel azzola, french accordionist


july 11

theodore h. maiman, american inventor , physicist developed laser (d. 2007)
julio sobrera, uruguayan cyclist
gregorio salvador caja, spanish linguist
chris leonard, english footballer


july 12

abune antonios, third patriarch of eritrean orthodox tewahedo church
tom benson, american footballer
frank windsor, english actor
gert grigoleit, american sprint canoer
muhammad iqbal, pakistani hammer thrower
jack harshman, american professional baseball pitcher (d. 2013)


july 13

chin kung, buddhist monk mahayana tradition
simone veil, french lawyer , politician (d. 2017)
ian reed, australian discus thrower


july 14

john chancellor, american news anchorman nbc (d. 1996)
paul v. priolo, american politician
ray hannigan, canadian professional ice hockey right winger
aimo vartiainen, finnish alpine skier
henri skiba, french football player
eero lohi, finnish modern pentathlete


july 15

ann jellicoe, british playwright, theatre director , actress
carmen zapata, american actress (d. 2014)
håkon brusveen, norwegian cross-country skier
leo c. zeferetti, american politician
joe turkel, american actor
nan martin, american actress (d. 2010)
caerwyn roderick, british labour party politician (d. 2011)
gloria pall, american model, showgirl, actress, author , businesswoman (d. 2012)
ted slevin, english professional rugby league footballer


july 16

shirley hughes, english author , illustrator
derek hawksworth, english footballer
geoffrey martin, australian rules footballer
serge baudo, french conductor
jules witcover, american journalist, author, , columnist
alois eisenträger, german footballer (d. 2017)
john warr, english cricketer (d. 2016)


july 17

ed leede, american former professional basketball player
roy stuart, american actor (d. 2005)


july 18

keith macdonald, canadian politician
robert e. haebel, american major general
antonio garcía-trevijano, spanish republican, political activist, , author
kurt masur, german conductor (d. 2015)
jack harshman, american professional baseball pitcher (d. 2013)
don bagley, american jazz bassist (d. 2012)


july 19

alma carlisle, african american architect , architectural historian
tom blake, american football player
hervé pinoteau, french historian , royalist apologist
billy gardner, american former professional baseball player, coach , manager


july 20

zhang sizhi, active rights lawyer in china
robert wahl, american football player
michael gielen, austrian conductor , composer
heather chasen, english actress
lyudmila alexeyeva, russian historian


july 21

dick smith, former major league baseball infielder
joan benedict steiger, american actress
hal hatfield, canadian football player
william liller, american astronomer


july 22

dagoberto moll, uruguayan footballer , manager
hsing yun, chinese buddhist monk
bill detrick, american college basketball , golf coach (d. 2014)


july 26 – danny la rue, irish drag queen (d. 2009)
july 27 – john seigenthaler, american journalist, writer, , political figure (d. 2014)
july 28 – john ashbery, american poet (d. 2017)
july 30

richard johnson, american actor (d. 2015)
victor wong, american actor (d. 2001)



august

marvin minsky



rosalynn carter



august 4

eddie kamae, american ukulele (d. 2017)
jess thomas, american tenor (d. 1993)
eddie kamae, american ukuleleist (d. 2017)


august 6 – arturo armando molina, former president of el salvador
august 7

rocky bridges, american middle infielder , third baseman (d. 2015)
edwin w. edwards, american politician
carl switzer, american actor (d. 1959)


august 8 – johnny temple, american baseball player (d. 1994)
august 9 – marvin minsky, american computer scientist, turing award winner (artificial intelligence) (d. 2016)
august 10 – eivind eckbo, norwegian politician, lawyer , farmer (d. 2017)
august 11 – stuart rosenberg, american director (d. 2007)
august 12 – porter wagoner, american country singer (d. 2007)
august 13 – david padilla, 64th president of bolivia (d. 2016)
august 14 – roger carel (bancharel), french actor
august 17

f. ray keyser jr., american lawyer , politician (d. 2015)
stefan geosits, burgenland croatian writer , translator


august 18 – rosalynn carter, first lady of united states
august 19 – l. q. jones, american actor
august 20 – peter oakley, known geriatric1927, british vlogger (d. 2014)
august 23

dick bruna, dutch artist, graphic designer (d. 2017)
philippe mestre, french high-ranking civil servant, media executive , politician (d. 2017)


august 25 – althea gibson, african-american tennis player (d. 2003)
august 26

ma jir bo, chinese realism oil painter (d. 1985)
jill amos, new zealand politician , community leader (d. 2017)


august 27 – fouad al-tikerly, prominent iraqi novelist , writer (d. 2008)
august 29 – a. ross eckler jr., american logologist, statistician , author (d. 2016)
august 30

buford a. johnson, african-american world war ii pilot (d. 2017)
geoffrey beene, american fashion designer (d. 2004)
bill daily, american comedian , dramatic actor



september

paul volcker



peter falk



september 3 – br. john hamman s.m. (d. 2000), close-up magician, inventor, marianist brother (d. 2000)
september 4 – antônio carlos magalhães, brazilian politician (d. 2007)
september 5 – paul volcker, american economist , academic
september 7 – eric hill, english author , illustrator (d. 2014)
september 10 – johnny keating, scottish musician , songwriter (d. 2015)
september 11

vernon corea, sri lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
g. david schine, american businessman (d. 1996)


september 13 – laura cardoso, brazilian actress
september 16

peter falk, american actor (d. 2011)
jack kelly, american actor (d. 1992)
sadako ogata, japanese diplomat, former united nations high commissioner refugees


september 19

rosemary harris, american actress
william hickey, american actor (d. 1997)
nick massi, former bassist 4 seasons (d. 2000)


september 21

owen aspinall, 45th governor of american samoa (d. 1997)
joan hotchkis, american actress, writer , performance artist


september 22

kika de la garza, american politician (d. 2017)
gordon astall, english footballer
tommy lasorda, american baseball manager (los angeles dodgers)


september 23 – thomas vose daily, american roman catholic prelate (d. 2017)
september 24 – arthur malet, english actor (d. 2013)
september 25

sir colin davis, english conductor (d. 2013)
val jellay, australian actress (d. 2017)


september 27 – steve stavro, canadian businessman , sports team owner (d. 2006)
september 28 – alícia raquel de videla, former first lady of argentina
september 29

cid moreira, brazilian journalist , tv presenter,
adhemar ferreira da silva, brazilian athlete (d. 2001)


september 30 – w. s. merwin, american poet

october

roger moore



günter grass



turgut Özal



jorge batlle



october 1 – tom bosley, american actor (d. 2010)
october 6 – antony grey, english gay rights activist (d. 2010)
october 8 – césar milstein, argentine scientist; received nobel prize in physiology or medicine (d. 2002)
october 10 – dana elcar, american actor , director (d. 2005)
october 11 – princess joséphine charlotte of belgium, grand duchess of luxembourg (d. 2005)
october 13

lee konitz, american jazz composer , alto saxophonist
turgut Özal, 8th president , 26th prime minister of turkey (d. 1993)


october 14 – roger moore, english actor (d. 2017)
october 15 – peter pollen, canadian politician (d. 2017)
october 16 – günter grass, german writer, nobel prize laureate (d. 2015)
october 18 – george c. scott, american actor (d. 1999)
october 19 – pierre alechinsky, belgian painter
october 23 – leszek kołakowski, polish philosopher (d. 2009)
october 24 – cal hogue, american baseball player (d. 2005)
october 25

jorge batlle, president of uruguay (d. 2016)
barbara cook, american singer , actress (d. 2017)


october 28 – roza makagonova, russian actress (d. 1995)

november

odvar nordli



abdul halim of kedah



november 2 – steve ditko, american comic-book writer , artist
november 3

marius barnard, south african cardiac surgeon (d. 2014)
peggy mccay, american actress
jan stoeckart, dutch composer, conductor, trombonist , former radio producer (d. 2017)
odvar nordli, norwegian politician , 10th prime minister of norway


november 4 – bobby breen, canadian-born american actor , singer (d. 2016)
november 5 – kenneth waller, english actor (d. 2000)
november 7 – hiroshi yamauchi, japanese businessman , president of nintendo (d. 2013)
november 8

ken dodd, english comedian
patti page, american singer (d. 2013)


november 10

richard connolly, australian hymnodist
gerry glaude, canadian professional ice hockey defenceman (d. 2017)
sabah, lebanese singer , actress (d. 2014)


november 14 – mclean stevenson, american actor (d. 1996)
november 15

gregor mackenzie, british politician (d. 1992)
bill rowling, 30th prime minister of new zealand (d. 1995)


november 17

fenella fielding, english actress
nicholas taylor, canadian geologist, businessman, politician , senator


november 18 – hank ballard, american musician (d. 2003)
november 21

georgia frontiere, co-owner of los angeles/st. louis rams (d. 2008)
gordon christian, american ice hockey player (d. 2017)


november 23

guy davenport, american author, artist, , scholar (d. 2005)
angelo sodano, italian cardinal, dean of college of cardinals


november 24

ahmadou kourouma, ivorian writer (d. 2003)
alfredo kraus, spanish tenor (d. 1999)


november 27

josé de jesús madera uribe, american roman catholic bishop (d. 2017)
arnold clark, scottish billionaire businessman (d. 2017)


november 28

abdul halim of kedah, yang di-pertuan agong of malaysia (d. 2017)
chuck mitchell, american actor (d. 1992)


november 29 – vin scully, american baseball broadcaster
november 30

tod sloan, canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2017)
robert guillaume, american actor (d. 2017)



december

bhumibol adulyadej



stein eriksen



kim young-sam



december 2 – prabhakar thokal, indian cartoonist (d. 1999)
december 3

andy williams, american singer (d. 2012)
richard pankhurst, british academic (d. 2017)


december 5

bhumibol adulyadej, king rama ix of thailand (d. 2016)
w. d. amaradeva, sri lanka maestro (d. 2016)
Óscar míguez, uruguayan football player (d. 2006)
erich probst, austrian football player (d. 1988)


december 6 – marcel pelletier, canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
december 7 – helen watts, welsh contralto (d. 2009)
december 8 – vladimir shatalov, russian cosmonaut
december 9 – pierre henry, french composer (d. 2017)
december 10 – bob farrell, american motivational speaker, author, , founder of farrell s ice cream parlour , restaurant (d. 2015)
december 11 – stein eriksen, norwegian olympic skiier (d. 2015)
december 12 – robert noyce, intel cofounder (d. 1990)
december 13 – james wright, american poet (d. 1980)
december 16 – akihiko hirata, japanese actor (d. 1984)
december 17 – richard long, american actor (d. 1974)
december 18 – roméo leblanc, 25th governor general of canada (d. 2009)
december 20

charlie callas, american comedian , singer (d. 2011)
kim young-sam, south korean politician, 7th president of republic of korea (d. 2015)


december 24 – mary higgins clark, american novelist
december 25

nellie fox, american baseball player (d. 1975)
ram narayan, indian sarangi player


december 26

akihiko hirata, japanese actor (d. 1984)
alan king, american comedian (d. 2004)
denis quilley, british actor (d. 2003)


december 27

genevieve audrey wagner, american professional baseball player , doctor of medicine (d. 1984)
luciano frosini, italian racing cyclist (d. 2017)


december 28 – edward babiuch, polish communist political figure
december 29

giorgio capitani, italian film director , screenwriter (d. 2017)
andy stanfield, american athlete (d. 1985)


december 30

jan kubíček, czech constructivist painter , sculptor (d. 2013)
hamed karoui, prime minister of tunisia