2016) Walter Smith, Scottish football manager (d. 2021) February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor February 28 Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter and composer Kjell Isaksson, Swedish pole vaulter Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer Mercedes Ruehl, American actress Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–), Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998) February 29 Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor, poet (d. 2018) Ken Foree, American actor Henry Small, American-born Canadian singer March March 1 – Gopanarayan Das, Indian politician (d. 2022) March 2 R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of electronic commerce Rory Gallagher, Irish musician (d. 1995) Jeff Kennett, Australian politician March 3 Steve Wilhite, American computer scientist, developer of the GIF image format at CompuServe in 1987 (d. 2022) March 4 Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, Australian author (A Cry in the Dark) James Ellroy, American writer Tom Grieve, American baseball player Leron Lee, American baseball player Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes) (d. 2015) Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer Brian Cummings, American voice actor March 5 Eddy Grant, Guyanese British singer, musician ("Electric Avenue") Elaine Paige, English singer, actress March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford, African-American actress (Amen) March 8 Sinta Nuriyah, 4th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Abdurrahman Wahid Jonathan Sacks, British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author and politician (d. 2020) March 9 László Lovász, Hungarian mathematician Jeffrey Osborne, American singer ("On the Wings of Love") March 10 – Doug Clark, American serial killer March 11 Dominique Sanda, French actress March 12 – James Taylor, American singer, songwriter ("Fire and Rain") March 13 – Maurice A. de Gosson, Austrian mathematician March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003) March 16 – Margaret Weis, American science fiction writer March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer March 18 Jessica B. Harris, American historian and journalist Bobby Whitlock, American singer and songwriter March 20 John de Lancie, American actor Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player Helene Vannari, Estonian actress (d. 2022) March 22 Inri Cristo, Brazilian educator who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist (CNN) Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer (Jesus Christ Superstar) March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress March 26 Nash the Slash (b. James Jeffrey Plewman), Canadian musician (d. 2014) Steven Tyler, American rock singer, songwriter (Aerosmith) March 28 Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist Dianne Wiest, American actress March 29 Mike