actor (d. 2018) February 27 – Rube Bjorkman, American ice hockey player and coach February 28 Hayden Fry, American football player and coach (d. 2019) Frank Gehry, Canadian-born American architect Rangaswamy Srinivasan, Indian-American physical chemist and inventor March March 1 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978) March 4 Columba Domínguez, Mexican actress (d. 2014) Cyril Robinson, English footballer (d. 2019) Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor (d. 2021) March 6 Fazil Iskander, Abkhaz writer (d. 2016) Ho Dam, North Korean politician (d. 1991) Günter Kunert, German writer (d. 2019) March 8 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer (d. 2012) March 9 Desmond Hoyte, 3rd Prime Minister of Guyana, 4th President of Guyana (d. 2002) Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 2013) March 10 – Lolita Rodrigues, Brazilian actress and presenter March 13 – Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2007) March 15 – Cecil Taylor, African-American jazz pianist, composer, and poet (d. 2018) March 16 Gennady Bukharin, Soviet Olympic canoeist (d. 2020) Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (d. 2023) March 18 – Christa Wolf, German literary critic, novelist, and essayist (d. 2011) March 22 Yayoi Kusama, Japanese contemporary artist P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer (d. 1973) March 23 – Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete (d. 2018) March 29 Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist and academic (d. 2021) Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006) Olga Tass, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (d. 2020) April April 1 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer April 3 – Poul Schlüter, Danish politician (d. 2021) April 5 Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, Dutch Antillean politician (d. 2017) Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (d. 2001) Joe Meek, English record producer, sound engineer, and songwriter (d. 1967) April 6 André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2019) Christos Sartzetakis, Greek politician (d. 2022) April 7 – Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, Indian Kathakali dancer (d. 2018) April 8 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (d. 1978) April 9 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (d. 1993) April 10 Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (d. 2020) Mike Hawthorn, British racing driver (d. 1959) Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (d. 2020) April 13 – Yvonne Clark, American engineer (d. 2019) April 14 Gerry Anderson, English television, film producer, director and writer, (Thunderbirds) (d. 2012) Paavo Berglund, Finnish conductor, violinist (d. 2012) Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (d.