– Johnny Green, American basketball player December 9 – Milton Gonçalves, Brazilian actor and television director (d. 2022) December 10 – Mako, Japanese-born actor (d. 2006) December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Filipino politician (d. 2019) December 12 – Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (d. 2020) December 13 – Lou Adler, American film and record producer December 14 Justin Rakotoniaina, 3rd prime minister of Madagascar (d. 2001) Eva Wilma, Brazilian actress (d. 2021) December 15 Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (d. 2019) Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (d. 2019) December 17 – Shirley Abrahamson, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (d. 2020) December 18 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017) December 19 – Galina Volchek, Soviet and Russian actress (d. 2019) December 20 – Jean Carnahan, American politician December 22 – Abel Pacheco, 44th President of Costa Rica December 23 – Akihito, 125th Emperor of Japan December 25 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018) December 26 Emmanuel Dabbaghian, Syrian Armenian Catholic patriarch (d. 2018) Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer (d. 2019) December 30 – Andy Stewart, Scottish singer, entertainer (d. 1993) Date unknown Jalal Talabani, Kurdish President of Iraq (d. 2017) Deaths January January 3 Wilhelm Cuno, German businessman, politician and 15th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876) Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor, film director and producer (b. 1896) January 5 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872) J. M. Robertson, British Liberal Party politician, writer and journalist, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (b. 1856) January 7 – Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator (b. 1892) January 9 Kate Gleason, American engineer (b. 1865) Daphne Akhurst, Australian tennis champion (b. 1903) January 10 – Roberto Mantovani, Italian geologist (b. 1854) January 17 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist, jewelry designer, son of Charles Lewis Tiffany January 25 – Lewis J. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1870) January 29 Thomas Coward, British ornithologist (b. 1867) Sara Teasdale, American lyrical poet (b. 1884) January 31 – John Galsworthy, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) February February 5 James Banning, American aviation pioneer (b. 1900) Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (b. 1863) February 12 Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848) Sir William Robertson, British field marshal (b. 1860) February 14 – Carl Correns, German botanist, geneticist (b. 1864) February 15 – Pat