screenwriter and producer 1946 – Rollie Fingers, American baseball player 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author 1946 – Charlie Sanders, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015) 1947 – Michael Kaluta, American author and illustrator 1947 – Keith Tippett, British jazz pianist and composer (d. 2020) 1948 – Ledward Kaapana, American singer and guitarist 1948 – Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemist and biologist 1949 – Martin Amis, British novelist 1949 – Rijkman Groenink, Dutch banker and academic 1949 – John Savage, American actor and producer 1949 – Gene Simmons, Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor 1950 – Willy DeVille, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009) 1950 – Charles Fambrough, American bassist, composer, and producer (d. 2011) 1951 – Rob Halford, English heavy metal singer-songwriter 1951 – Bill Handel, Brazilian-American lawyer and radio host 1952 – Kurban Berdyev, Turkmen footballer and manager 1952 – Geoff Downes, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1952 – Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach 1954 – Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1954 – Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland 1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (d. 2004) 1955 – Gerd Müller, German businessman and politician 1956 – Matt Aitken, English songwriter and record producer 1956 – Takeshi Okada, Japanese footballer, coach, and manager 1956 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (d. 1986) 1957 – Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster 1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor and director 1957 – Frank Serratore, American ice hockey player and coach 1958 – Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1959 – Ian Falconer, American author and illustrator 1959 – Steve Levy, American lawyer and politician 1959 – Bernardo Rezende, Brazilian volleyball coach and player 1959 – Lane Smith, American author and illustrator 1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano and actress 1960 – Georg Zellhofer, Austrian footballer and manager 1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1961 – Joanne Whalley, English actress 1962 – Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi author 1962 – Theresa Andrews, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion 1962 – Vivian Campbell, Northern Irish rock guitarist and songwriter 1962 – Michael Zorc, German footballer 1963 – Miro Cerar, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia 1963 – Shock G, American rapper and producer (d. 2021) 1963 – Tiina Intelmann, Estonian lawyer and diplomat 1964 – Azmin Ali, Malaysian mathematician