(d. 1974) Jennifer Johnston, Irish novelist Glenn Yarbrough, American singer (d. 2016) January 15 – Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020) January 16 – Mary Ann McMorrow, American judge (d. 2013) January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the Moon January 21 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician and diplomat (d. 2001) January 23 Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014) January 24 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d. 2016) January 27 – Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013) January 30 Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist Magnus Malan, South African soldier, Minister of Defence in the 1980s (d. 2011) February February 1 Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th president of Bangladesh (d. 2022) Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th president of Bangladesh (d. 2019) February 2 – Ruth M. Kirk, American politician (d. 2011) February 3 – Mani Krishnaswami, Carnatic music vocalist from Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2002) February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015) February 7 – Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer and entrepreneur (d. 2017) February 8 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d. 1987) February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor February 13 Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015) Israel Kirzner, English-born American economist, author and academic February 15 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet (d. 2020) February 17 – Ruth Rendell, British author (d. 2015) February 19 John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002) K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2023) February 22 – Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016) February 23 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (d. 2019) February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate March March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d. 2018) March 3 Heiner Geißler, German politician (d. 2017) Ion Iliescu, 2-time President of Romania K. S. Rajah, Singaporean Senior Counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court (d. 2010) March 6 Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977) Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d. 2014) March 7 Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d. 2017) Daphne Osborne, English botanist (d. 2006) March 8 – Douglas Hurd, English politician March 9 (or 19) – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015) March 13 – Liz Anderson, American country music singer