American actor Dan Hicks, American singer, songwriter (d. 2016) December 10 Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996) Peter Sarstedt, English singer, songwriter (d. 2017) Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer, actor ("Sukiyaki") (d. 1985) December 11 J. Frank Wilson, American singer (d. 1991) Max Baucus, American politician and diplomat December 12 – Vitaly Solomin, Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2002) December 13 – John Davidson, American singer, actor December 16 Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (d. 2018) Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (d. 1994) December 19 Lee Myung-bak, 17th President of the Republic of Korea Maurice White, African-American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (d. 2016) December 21 Lo Hoi-pang, Hong Kong-born Chinese actor Jared Martin, American actor (d. 2017) December 23 Ron Bushy, American rock musician Tim Hardin, American folk musician (d. 1980) Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (d. 2021) December 24 Hans Eichel, German politician Lex Hixon, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher (d. 1995) December 27 Miles Aiken, American basketball player and coach Younoussi Touré, 4th prime minister of Mali (d. 2022) December 29 – Ray Thomas, English flautist, singer and songwriter (The Moody Blues) (d. 2018) December 30 – Mel Renfro, American football player December 31 – Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager (Manchester United) Deaths January January 1 – József Konkolics, Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1861) January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859) January 5 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (aviation accident) (b. 1903) January 8 Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English soldier; founder of the Scouts (b. 1857) Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1854) January 10 Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879) Sir John Lavery, Anglo-Irish artist (b. 1856) January 11 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess champion (b. 1868) January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer, poet (b. 1882) January 15 – Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi, Italian nobleman, general and politician (b. 1856) January 21 – Rudolf von Brudermann, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1851) January 24 – Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, British aristocrat (murder) (b. 1901) January 29 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek military officer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871) February February 2 – Harris Laning, American admiral (b. 1873) February 4 – George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, British politician and diplomat (b. 1879) February 5 Banjo Paterson, Australian poet and journalist (b. 1864) Otto Strandman, 1st Prime Minister of