politician November 29 Lauren Child, American author Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese musician (d. 1992) Raffaella Reggi, Italian tennis player November 30 Ben Stiller, American actor, comedian and filmmaker Tashi Tenzing, Indian mountaineer December December 3 Steve Harris, American actor Katarina Witt, German figure skater Andrew Stanton, American animator, storyboard artist, film director, and screenwriter December 5 – Johnny Rzeznik, American rock singer and guitarist December 7 Teruyuki Kagawa, Japanese actor Jeffrey Wright, African-American actor December 8 – David Harewood, English actor December 9 – Brad Savage, American actor December 10 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress December 15 – Luis Fabián Artime, Argentine footballer December 16 – J. B. Smoove, African-American actor and comedian December 18 – John Moshoeu, South African footballer (d. 2015) December 19 – Jessica Steen, Canadian actress December 21 Andy Dick, American actor and comedian Anke Engelke, German comedian, actress and voice-over actress December 23 – Andreas Kappes, German cyclist (d. 2018) December 27 – Salman Khan, Indian actor, television presenter December 30 – Valentina Legkostupova, Soviet and Russian pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020) December 31 Nicholas Sparks, American author Gong Li, Chinese actress Date unknown Yklymberdi Paromov, Turkmen politician Deaths January January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) January 10 Antonín Bečvář, Czechoslovak astronomer (b. 1901) Frederick Fleet, British sailor and lookout aboard the RMS Titanic (b. 1887) January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright and writer (b. 1930) January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903) January 15 – Pierre Ngendandumwe, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1930) January 20 – Alan Freed, American disc jockey (b. 1922) January 24 – Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and statesman, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, World War II leader, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874) January 27 – Hassan Ali Mansur, Iranian politician, 69th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923) January 28 Taimur bin Feisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (b. 1886) Maxime Weygand, French general (b. 1867) January 31 – Konstantin Muraviev, 31st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1893) February February 5 – Irving Bacon, American actor (b. 1893) February 6 – Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern (b. 1891) February 7 – Nance O'Neil, American stage and film actress (b. 1874) February 9 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Indian educationist, philosopher, philanthropist, social reformer and spiritualist (b. 1874) February 13