29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018) November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries (d. 2021) December December 2 – Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014) December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (d. 2022) December 4 Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian (d. 2016) Jacqueline du Bief, French figure skater December 6 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000) December 7 – Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-born British writer December 8 – Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014) December 9 Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010) Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 2020) December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor and director (d. 2022) December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur December 15 Antonietta Meo, Italian saint (d. 1937) Edna O'Brien, Irish writer December 17 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, Russian-born German actor December 19 – Anca Giurchescu, Romanian academic and ethnochoreologist (d. 2015) December 21 Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official (d. 2018) Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004) December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (d. 1986) December 28 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (d. 2010) December 30 Alvin Peterson, Jamaican percussionist (d. 2021) Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate December 31 – Odetta, American singer (d. 2008) Deaths January – June January 8 – Martha Tynæs, Norwegian social worker and politician (b. 1870) January 9 – Edward Bok, American author (b. 1863) January 13 – John Nathan Cobb, American author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher, and educator (b. 1868) January 19 – Frank Ramsey, British philosopher, mathematician and economist (b. 1903) January 22 – Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, British politician and courtier (b. 1852) January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician (b. 1835) January 27 – Dewa Shigetō, Japanese admiral (b. 1856) January 28 – Emmy Destinn, Czech operatic soprano (b. 1878) February 3 Michele Bianchi, Italian fascist leader (b. 1883) Poseidon, Australian racehorse (b. 1903) February 14 – Sir Thomas MacKenzie, New Zealand politician, explorer, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand and High Commissioner (b. 1854) February 15 – Giulio Douhet, Italian general, air power theorist (b. 1869) February 21 – Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (b. 1898) February 23 Mabel Normand, American actress (b. 1892) Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue, composer (b. 1907) February 26 Mary Whiton Calkins, American