South Korea March 13 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter March 14 – Glauber Rocha, Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter (d. 1981) March 17 – Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian footballer and manager March 20 – Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada March 25 – D. C. Fontana, American television writer (d. 2019) March 29 – Terence Hill, Italian actor March 31 Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (d. 1993) Volker Schlöndorff, German film director Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer April 1 – Ali MacGraw, American actress April 2 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984) April 4 Alex George, Australian botanist Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer (d. 2018) Ernie Terrell, African-American professional boxer (d. 2014) April 7 Sir David Frost, English television personality (d. 2013) Francis Ford Coppola, American film director April 9 – Michael Learned, American actress April 10 – Claudio Magris, Italian author April 12 – Alan Ayckbourn, English dramatist April 13 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) April 15 – Jaime Paz Zamora , 60th President of Bolivia April 16 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (d. 1999) April 19 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran April 20 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian politician, 1st female Prime Minister April 21 – Helen Prejean, American writer April 23 – Lee Majors, American actor April 27 – João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009) May–June * May 1 – Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter May 2 Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist and inventor Taomati Iuta, Vice President of Kiribati (1991–94) (d. 2016) May 4 – Amos Oz, Israeli author and journalist (d. 2018) May 7 José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan orchestral conductor, music educator (d. 2018) Sidney Altman, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022) Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1982–94) (d. 2018) May 9 – Ralph Boston, American athlete May 13 – Harvey Keitel, American actor May 15 – Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (d. 2019) May 18 – Peter Grünberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018) May 19 Livio Berruti, Italian sprinter James Fox, English actor Nancy Kwan, American actress Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986) May 20 – Roman Kartsev, Russian actor (d. 2018) May 21 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer May 22 – Paul Winfield, African-American actor (d. 2004) May 25 Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010) Sir Ian McKellen, English actor May 27