van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone August 26 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008) Michel Micombero, 1st President of Burundi (d. 1983) August 27 Fernest Arceneaux, American musician (d. 2008) Sonny Sharrock, American jazz musician (d. 1994) August 28 – Joseph Shabalala, South African choral director (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (d. 2020) August 29 – Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler, martial artist (d. 2015) August 31 Wilton Felder, American saxophonist, bassist (d. 2015) Jack Thompson, Australian actor September September 1 Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish military officer (d. 2019) Annie Ernaux, French author, Nobel Prize laureate September 3 Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (d. 2015) Joseph Warioba, 5th Prime Minister of Tanzania September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress (d. 2023) September 6 Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (d. 2019) Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter, actress (d. 2015) September 7 Dario Argento, Italian filmmaker Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (d. 2009) September 10 Roy Ayers, African-American musician, songwriter David Mann, American artist (d. 2004) September 11 Brian De Palma, American film director Ajit Singh, Indian-born economist (d. 2015) September 12 Joachim Frank, German-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate Linda Gray, American model, actress (Dallas) Skip Hinnant, American actor Mickey Lolich, American baseball player September 13 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, twice President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate September 14 Larry Brown, American basketball player, coach Barbara Greenwood, Canadian educator and children's author September 18 – Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor September 20 – Tarō Asō, 59th Prime Minister of Japan September 22 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress (d. 2019) September 23 Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian traditional singer (d. 2020) Michel Temer, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil between 2016 and 2018. September 24 – Michiko Suganuma, Urushi Japanese lacquer artist October October 1 Chris Pattikawa, Indonesian film director and producer (d. 2020) Jean-Luc Bideau, Swiss actor October 3 – Alan O'Day, American singer, songwriter (d. 2013) Mike Troy, American swimmer (d. 2019) October 4 – Ian Kiernan, Australian yachtsman (d. 2018) October 5 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress (d. 2018) October 9 – John Lennon, English musician, singer (The Beatles) (d. 1980) October 13 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist (d. 2022) October 14 – Cliff Richard, British pop musician, actor and philanthropist October 15 – Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine October 16 Barry Corbin, American actor Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach, baseball player (d. 2003) October