Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer and academic (d. 1984) 1924 – Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer, and politician (d. 2018) 1924 – Tom Landry, American football player and coach (d. 2000) 1924 – Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (d. 2006) 1925 – Harry Somers, Canadian soldier and composer (d. 1999) 1926 – Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (d. 2005) 1927 – Keith Holman, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2011) 1927 – G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman (d. 1996) 1928 – Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (d. 2014) 1928 – Earl Holliman, American actor 1929 – Luis García, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2014) 1929 – Primož Kozak, Slovenian playwright (d. 1981) 1929 – Patrick Mayhew, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d. 2016) 1930 – Cathryn Damon, American actress and dancer (d. 1987) 1930 – Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (d. 1998) 1930 – Saleh Selim, Egyptian footballer, manager, and actor (d. 2002) 1931 – Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian and academic (d. 2014) 1933 – Margaret Booth, English lawyer and judge (d. 2021) 1933 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002) 1933 – Nicola Pietrangeli, Italian tennis player 1934 – Oliver Jones, Canadian pianist and composer 1935 – Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer 1935 – Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2000) 1936 – Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (d. 2014) 1937 – Robert Crippen, American captain, pilot, and astronaut 1937 – Queen Paola of Belgium 1938 – David Higgins, English composer and conductor (d. 2006) 1938 – Brian F. G. Johnson, English chemist and academic 1939 – Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems (d. 2021) 1940 – Brian De Palma, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1940 – Nông Đức Mạnh, Vietnamese politician 1941 – Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Civil Rights activist and Little Rock Nine member 1942 – Lola Falana, American actress, singer, and dancer 1943 – André Caillé, Canadian chemist and businessman 1943 – Brian Perkins, New Zealand-English journalist and actor 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer (d. 1974) 1944 – Freddy Thielemans, Belgian educator and politician, Mayor of Brussels 1945 – Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager 1945 – Gianluigi Gelmetti, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2021) 1945 – Leo Kottke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1946 – Dennis Tufano, American rock singer 1948 – John Martyn, English-Scottish