President of Botswana (d. 1980) July 2 – Joseph Zhu Baoyu, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020) July 3 Flor María Chalbaud, former First Lady of Venezuela (d. 2013) Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, American-born Hasidic rebbe (d. 2009) July 4 Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) Nasser Sharifi, Iranian sports shooter Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist, conductor (d. 2003) July 5 Clare Abbott, South African artist and illustrator Zeynep Korkmaz, Turkish scholar and dialectologist Nanos Valaoritis, Greek writer (d. 2019) Patricia Wright, American actress July 6 Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (d. 2016) Allan MacEachen, Canadian politician (d. 2017) July 7 – Dragomir Felba, Serbian actor (d. 2006) July 8 John Money, New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (d. 2006) Edgar Morin, French philosopher and sociologist Frank Prihoda, Australian alpine skier (d. 2022) July 10 Ed Iskenderian, American hot rodder and entrepreneur Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter of American politician Joseph P. Kennedy (d. 2009) John K. Singlaub, U.S Army Major General (d. 2022) July 11 Claude Bonin-Pissarro, French painter and graphic designer (d. 2021) Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. 2000) Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005) July 13 Lucette Finas, French author and essayist Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer (d. 1999) Reinhard Sommer, German trade union leader July 14 Leon Garfield, English writer (d. 1996) Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013) Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) Sixto Durán Ballén, President of Ecuador (d. 2016) July 15 Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) Carl Richardson, American football coach N. Sankaraiah, Indian communist politician July 17 Acquanetta, American actress (d. 2004) Pío Corcuera, Argentine football striker (d. 2011) Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944) July 18 Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist (d. 2021) John Glenn, American astronaut, U.S. Senator (d. 2016) Heinz Bennent, German actor (d. 2011) Gerry Mays, Scottish football player, manager (d. 2006) Richard Leacock, British-born documentary filmmaker, pioneer of Cinéma Vérité (d. 2011) July 19 Bertil Antonsson, Swedish heavyweight wrestler (d. 2006) Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011) July 21 – Murad Ahmad, Malaysian politician July 26 Valmiki Choudhary, Indian politician (d. 1996) Wang Xiji, Chinese aerospace engineer July 28 Melba Hernández, Cuban politician, diplomat (d. 2014) Ella Tengbom-Velander, Swedish politician (d. 2022) July 29 Richard Egan, American actor