(d. 2020) Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese zoologist January 23 Patriarch Filaret, former Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate January 25 – Benny Golson, American jazz musician January 26 Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and author Sumiteru Taniguchi, Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017) January 27 Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian business magnate Hans Berliner, American chess player, writer and professor (d. 2017) Barbara York Main, Australian arachnologist and adjunct professor (d. 2019) Richard Ottinger, American politician January 28 Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist (d. 2014) Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist Ali Mirzaei, Iranian weightlifter (d. 2020) Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor (Clothespin) (d. 2022) January 30 Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021) Jacqueline van Maarsen, Dutch writer January 31 Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2011) Jean Simmons, English-American actress (d. 2010) February February 1 – Basilio Lami Dozo, Argentine dictator (d. 2017) February 2 – Věra Chytilová, Czech director (d. 2014) February 5 Hal Blaine, American drummer and session musician (d. 2019) Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005) Fred Sinowatz, 18th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008) February 6 Sixten Jernberg, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2012) Pierre Brice, French actor (d. 2015) February 10 Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2007) Jerry Goldsmith, American composer, conductor (d. 2004) February 11 – Gunvor Pontén, Swedish actress February 14 – Vic Morrow, American actor and director (d. 1982) February 15 Graham Hill, English racing driver (d. 1975) Kauko Armas Nieminen, Finnish physicist (d. 2010) Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Palestinian academic (d. 2001) James Schlesinger, American politician (d. 2014) February 16 – Kazimierz Kutz, Polish film director and politician (d. 2018) February 17 Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019) Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French director and screenwriter Patricia Routledge, English actress, singer February 18 Roland Minson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020) Len Deighton, British author February 21 – Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolaños), Mexican actor, comedian (d. 2014) February 22 James Hong, Chinese American actor, director Miloš Radulović, President of Yugoslavia (d. 2017) Rebecca Schull, American actress February 23 – Patriarch Alexy II of Russia (d. 2008) February 24 Nils Petter Sundgren, Swedish film critic and television presenter (d. 2019) Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish surrealist painter (d. 2005) Modesta Lavana, Mexican healer and activist for indigenous rights in Hueyapan (d. 2010) February 26 Ina'am Al-Mufti, Jordanian politician (d. 2018) Paolo Ferrari, Italian