2006) 1922 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (d. 2000) 1924 – Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014) 1924 – Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015) 1925 – W. Reece Smith, Jr., American lawyer and academic (d. 2013) 1926 – Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (d. 2020) 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020) 1926 – James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020) 1926 – Duke Snider, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011) 1927 – Helen Carter, American singer (d. 1998) 1927 – Rosemary Harris, English actress 1927 – William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997) 1927 – Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (d. 2000) 1928 – Adam West, American actor and businessman (d. 2017) 1929 – Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (d. 2014) 1930 – Muhal Richard Abrams, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2017) 1930 – Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (d. 2012) 1930 – Antonio Margheriti, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002) 1931 – Brook Benton, American pop/R&B/rock & roll singer-songwriter (d. 1988) 1931 – Derek Gardner, English engineer (d. 2011) 1932 – Mike Royko, American journalist and author (d. 1997) 1932 – Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (d. 2014) 1933 – Gilles Archambault, Canadian journalist and author 1933 – David McCallum, Scottish actor 1934 – Brian Epstein, English businessman, The Beatles manager (d. 1967) 1934 – Austin Mitchell, English journalist, academic and politician (d. 2021) 1935 – Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (d. 2003) 1936 – Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (d. 2012) 1936 – Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014) 1936 – Al Oerter, American discus thrower (d. 2007) 1937 – Abner Haynes, American football player 1939 – Carl Schultz, Hungarian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter 1940 – Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter 1940 – Zandra Rhodes, English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum 1940 – Paul Williams, American singer-songwriter and actor 1941 – Umberto Bossi, Italian politician 1941 – Cass Elliot, American singer (d. 1974) 1941 – Jim Fox, English pentathlete 1941 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (d. 2013) 1942 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress 1943 – André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2019) 1943 – Joe Morgan, American baseball player (d. 2020) 1944 – Anders Björck, Swedish politician, 25th Swedish Minister of Defence 1944 – Edmund Joensen,