American author (d. 2013) David Letterman, American talk show host April 13 – Mike Chapman, Australian-born songwriter, record producer April 15 – Lois Chiles, American actress April 16 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, African-American basketball player, actor (Airplane!) Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter ("Baker Street") (d. 2011) April 18 Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997) Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director James Woods, American actor April 19 – Murray Perahia, American pianist April 20 Daud Ibrahim, Malaysian cyclist (d. 2010) Hector, Finnish rock musician April 21 – Iggy Pop, American rock musician April 24 – Josep Borrell, Spanish minister, MEP and EU High Representative April 25 Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2016) Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor April 27 - Pete Ham, Welsh rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (suicide 1975) April 29 Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy Tommy James, American rock singer, producer Jim Ryun, American middle-distance runner May May 1 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexico-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist (d. 2015) May 4 – Theda Skocpol, American sociologist May 5 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, Guinea-Bissau politician (d. 2012) May 6 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher May 8 – H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine May 9 – Yukiya Amano, Japanese international civil servant (d. 2019) May 10 – Caroline B. Cooney, American author May 11 Walter Selke, German physicist Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 2017) May 12 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician, philosopher and historian May 13 – Stephen R. Donaldson, American novelist May 14 José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord (d. 1989) Tamara Dobson, African-American actress, fashion model (d. 2006) Ana Martín, Mexican actress, singer producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963) May 15 – Muhyiddin Yassin, Prime Minister of Malaysia May 17 – Hawa Abdi, Somali activist and doctor (d. 2020) May 18 – John Bruton, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland May 19 – Paul Brady, Northern Irish singer, songwriter May 21 – Lolit Solis, Filipina talent manager (host of Startalk, CelebriTV) May 24 – Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians May 26 – Glenn Turner, New Zealand cricket captain May 27 Peter DeFazio, American politician Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and coach May 28 – Pedro Giachino, Argentine Navy officer (d. 1982) June June 1 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor Ronnie Wood, English rock musician (The Faces, The Rolling Stones)