December 5 Alan Davies, English-Welsh international footballer (d. 1992) Laura Flanders, British born American journalist December 6 - Colin Salmon, British actor December 8 – Ann Coulter, American author, conservative commentator and attorney December 9 Beril Dedeoğlu, Turkish politician and academic (d. 2019) David Anthony Higgins, American actor December 10 Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Nepalese Buddhist (d. 1993) Nia Peeples, American actress December 12 Daniel O'Donnell, Irish singer Sarah Sutton, British actress December 13 Karen Witter, American actress and model Per Øystein Sørensen, Norwegian lead singer Fra Lippo Lippi December 15 – Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician December 16 Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994) Jon Tenney, American actor Sam Robards, American actor Shane Black, American film director December 19 Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Matthew Waterhouse, British actor Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004) December 20 – Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor December 21 – Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor December 22 – Kassim Majaliwa, 10th Prime Minister of Tanzania December 23 Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist George Wassouf, Syrian singer December 24 Ilham Aliyev, 7th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan and 4th President of Azerbaijan Wade Williams, American actor December 25 Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian senator Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2010) December 26 – John Lynch, Northern Irish actor December 27 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician (d. 2016) December 29 – Jim Reid, Scottish musician December 30 Douglas Coupland, Canadian author Bill English, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand Sean Hannity, American radio/television host and conservative commentator Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete December 31 – Aziz Akhannouch, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister of Morocco Deaths January January 3 – Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman (b. 1896) January 4 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) January 8 – František Flos, Czech novelist (b. 1864) January 9 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867) January 10 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894) January 13 Nino Marchesini, Italian actor (b. 1895) Blanche Ring, American singer and actress (b. 1871) January 14 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888) January 17 – Patrice Lumumba, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925) January 18 – Thomas Anthony Dooley III, physician (b. 1927) January 21 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887) John J. Becker, American composer and