Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director May May 1 Ray Parker Jr., African-American musician and composer ("Ghostbusters") Maatia Toafa, 2-time prime minister of Tuvalu May 2 – Elliot Goldenthal, American composer May 5 – David Azulai, Israeli politician (d. 2018) May 6 – Angela Hernández Nuñez, Dominican writer May 7 Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist Amy Heckerling, American film director Diana Raab, American author May 8 – Pam Arciero, Hawaiian-born puppeteer (Sesame Street) May 10 – Amos Guttman, Israeli film director (d. 1993) May 13 – Johnny Logan, Australian-born Irish singer, composer and Eurovision Song Contest winner (1980, 1987) dubbed as "Mister Eurovision" May 14 María Dolores Katarain ("Yoyes"), Spanish Basque separatist leader (d. 1986) Peter J. Ratcliffe, English cellular biologist, Nobel Prize laureate May 19 Hōchū Ōtsuka, Japanese voice actor Phil Rudd, Australian rock drummer (AC/DC) May 20 – David Paterson, American politician, 55th Governor of New York May 22 – Shuji Nakamura, Japanese electronics engineer May 23 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American middleweight boxer and film actor (d. 2021) May 25 Tantely Andrianarivo, 11th prime minister of Madagascar Sudirman, Malaysian singer and songwriter (d. 1992) May 27 Pauline Hanson, Australian politician Lawrence M. Krauss, American theoretical physicist, science writer Coney Reyes, Philippine film and television actress May 28 – John Tory, Canadian politician May 29 – Pankaj Kapur, Indian actor June June 2 Mattos Nascimento, Brazilian musician, singer, composer and trombonist Dennis Haysbert, African-American actor Chiyoko Kawashima, Japanese voice actress June 4 – Kazuhiro Yamaji, Japanese actor, voice actor June 5 Hashim Djojohadikusumo, Indonesian entrepreneur, politician Nancy Stafford, American actress, Christian author June 6 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor June 9 John Hagelin, American physicist, U.S. presidential candidate Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada June 10 – Kurt Walker, American ice hockey player (d. 2018) June 13 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian-born Director-General of the World Trade Organization June 14 – Will Patton, American actor June 15 Jim Belushi, American actor, comedian, singer and musician Bob McDonnell, American politician June 16 – Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (d. 1996) June 19 Ted Coombs, American artist Kathleen Turner, American actress (Romancing the Stone) June 20 Michael Anthony, American rock bassist (Van Halen) Karlheinz Brandenburg, German electrical engineer, mathematician Ilan Ramon, Israeli Air Force fighter pilot, Israel's first astronaut (d. 2003) June 21 Chip Ingram, American Christian pastor, author and orator Mark Kimmitt, U.S general