American businessman and baseball team owner (d. 2010) Yuriy Tyukalov, Russian rower (d. 2018) July 6 George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2021) Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (d. 2016) M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor (d. 2016) July 7 Theodore McCarrick, American Roman Catholic former cardinal Biljana Plavšić, Bosnian politician and war criminal July 9 Slavko Dacevski, Macedonian football player and manager Patricia Newcomb, American producer and publicist July 11 Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019) July 14 – Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014) July 15 Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004) Stephen Smale, American mathematician July 17 Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019) Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (d. 2018) Sir William Heseltine, Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II July 19 – David Rubadiri, Malawian diplomat, academic, poet, playwright and novelist (d. 2018) July 20 Alex Sánchez, Costa Rican football player Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d. 2018) July 21 Gene Littler, American professional golfer (d. 2019) Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist Anand Bakshi, Indian poet/lyricist (d. 2002) July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (d. 2013) July 25 Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985) Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010) Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (d. 2018) July 28 Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014) Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006) August August 1 Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002) Lawrence Eagleburger, United States Secretary of State (d. 2011) Károly Grósz, 51st prime minister of Hungary (d. 1996) Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 2014) August 4 Enrico Castellani, Italian painter (d. 2017) Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shia Ayatollah August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, commander of Apollo 11 (d. 2012) August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010) August 9 Carmen Balcells, Spanish literary agent (d. 2015) Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015) August 10 – Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d. 2018) August 12 – George Soros, Hungarian-born investor August 13 – Don Ho, American singer and entertainer (d. 2007) August 14 Earl Weaver, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 2013) Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018) August 15 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (probable; d.