Édith Scob, French film and theatre actress (d. 2019) October 22 – Kader Khan, Afghan-born Indian-Canadian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director (d. 2018) October 28 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach October 30 – Ashaari Mohammad, Malaysian spiritual leader (d. 2010) October 31 – Tom Paxton, American folk singer, songwriter November November 4 – Loretta Swit, American actress (M*A*S*H) November 5 – Chan Sek Keong, third Chief Justice of Singapore November 8 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2019) November 15 – Little Willie John, African-American R&B singer (d. 1968) November 17 – Peter Cook, English comedian, writer and actor (d. 1995) November 20 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2013) November 21 Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010) Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer and social activist (That Girl) Ferenc Kósa, Hungarian film director (d. 2018) November 25 – Serikbolsyn Abdildin, Kazakh economist and politician (d. 2019) November 26 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1994) November 30 – Ridley Scott, British film director, producer December December 1 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President of Latvia December 3 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (d. 2012) December 6 – Ramon Torrents, Spanish artist December 8 James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010) Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountaineer, businessman (d. 2004) December 12 Connie Francis, American singer Michael Jeffery, 24th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2020) December 17 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (d. 2007) December 18 – Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani cleric, politician (d. 2018) December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress and activist December 26 – John Horton Conway, English-born mathematician (d. 2020) December 28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist December 29 – Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives (1978–2008) December 30 – Gordon Banks, English footballer (d. 2019) December 31 Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor Milutin Šoškić, Serbian footballer (d. 2022) Deaths January January 1 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1874) John Gresham Machen, American Presbyterian theologian (b. 1881) January 2 – Ross Alexander, American actor (b. 1907) January 5 Alberto de Oliveira, Brazilian poet (b. 1857) Ernst Löfström, Finnish general of World War I (b. 1865) January 6 André Bessette, Canadian religious leader, saint (b. 1845) Albert Gleaves, American admiral (b. 1858) January 13 – Martin Johnson, American adventurer, documentary filmmaker (plane crash) (b. 1884) January 15 Pietro Biginelli,