Order of Malta (d. 2020) Tadashi Irie, Japanese yakuza boss Ki Longfellow, American novelist Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (d. 2019) December 10 – Andris Bērziņš, 8th President of Latvia December 11 Gianni Morandi, Italian singer Brenda Lee, American singer Lynda Day George, American actress Teri Garr, American actress December 12 Diana Bracho, Mexican actress Kenneth Cranham, Scottish born actor Cara Duff-MacCormick, Canadian stage actress December 17 – Bernard Hill, British actor December 19 Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (d. 2019) María Martha Serra Lima, Argentine singer (d. 2017) Tim Reid, African-American actor and film director Terry Underwood, Australian author December 20 – Ray Martin, Australian journalist and television presenter December 21 Bill Atkinson, English footballer Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007) December 22 – Steve Carlton, American baseball player December 23 Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Ingar Knudtsen, Norwegian novelist and poet December 24 – Erhard Keller, German speed skater December 25 Jairzinho, Brazilian football player Kenny Everett, British comedian and radio DJ. (d. 1995) December 26 Bill Ayers, American education theorist, previously radical anti-war activist Jane Lapotaire, British actress Aleksey Mikhalyov, Russian translator December 28 Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019) Edgar Vivar, Mexican actor (Señor Barriga and Ñoño in El Chavo del Ocho) December 29 – King Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001) December 30 – Joseph Hilbe, American statistician and author December 31 Neil Ross, British-American voice actor and announcer Jan Widströmer, Swedish painter and poet Deaths January January 1 Sir Edwin Lutyens, British architect (b. 1869) Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862) January 3 – Franz Reichleitner, Austrian SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant (b. 1906) January 4 – Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor and martyr (b. 1898) January 6 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist and muckraker (b. 1857) January 7 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (b. 1874) January 9 – Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania (b. 1874) January 10 William Emerson Ritter, American biologist (b. 1856) Andrey Toshev, Bulgarian scientist and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1867) January 11 Italian leaders of the Grand Council of Fascism executed following the Verona Trial Emilio De Bono, general (b. 1866) Galeazzo Ciano, aristocrat and diplomat (b. 1903) Giovanni Marinelli, politician (b. 1879) Charles King, American actor (b. 1889) Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (suicide) (b.