keyboard player, composer, and academic 1944 – Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004) 1946 – King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager 1947 – Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author (d. 2016) 1947 – David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist 1947 – Norma McCorvey, American activist (d. 2017) 1947 – Robert Morace, American author and academic 1948 – Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory 1948 – Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist 1949 – James Cartwright, American general 1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia 1951 – David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter 1951 – Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2012) 1951 – Doug Somers, American wrestler (d. 2017) 1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician 1952 – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok 1952 – Américo Rocca, Mexican wrestler 1953 – Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer 1953 – Ségolène Royal, French politician 1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach 1956 – Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author 1956 – Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player 1956 – Ibrahim Shema, Nigerian lawyer, politician 1957 – Steve Carney, English footballer (d. 2013) 1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor 1957 – Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player 1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager 1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer 1958 – Beth Catlin, American autistic savant 1958 – Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author 1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress 1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host 1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate 1960 – Scott Baio, American actor 1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player 1961 – Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence 1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and talk show host 1961 – Diane Lemieux, Canadian lawyer and politician 1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American actress 1961 – Michael Torke, American composer 1962 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2016) 1964 – Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician 1964 – Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer 1965 – Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1965 – Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat,