physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022) July 10 Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer (d. 2022) Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d. 2015) Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993) Harry MacPherson, American pitcher (d. 2017) Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former politician and partisan July 11 Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian (d. 2022) Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015) July 12 – Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad July 13 – Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter July 14 – Harry Dean Stanton, American film and television actor (d. 2017) July 15 Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019) Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003) Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015) July 16 Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and novelist (d. 2017) Michael Otedola, Nigerian politician (d. 2014) Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015) Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician July 17 – Édouard Carpentier, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010) July 18 Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (d. 2022) July 19 Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017) Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer July 20 Charles David Ganao, Congolese politician (d. 2012) Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician (d. 2016) July 21 Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier (d. 2004) Norman Jewison, Canadian film director July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013) July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (d. 2018) July 25 Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura soprano in opera and concert (d. 2022) Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018) Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009) July 26 – James Best, American actor and acting coach (d. 2015) July 28 – Walt Brown, American presidential candidate July 29 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (d. 2008) July 30 – Nina Kulagina, Russian psychic (d. 1990) July 31 Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011) Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016) August August 2 Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988) George Habash, Palestinian Christian politician (d. 2008) Igor Spassky, Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. 1975) August 3 Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. 2013) Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2015) Tony Bennett, American singer