18 – Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019) March 19 Edward G. Robinson Jr., American actor (d. 1974) Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018) Michel Sabbah, Israeli patriarch Renée Taylor, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director March 22 Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (d. 2021) May Britt, Swedish actress Buddy MacKay, American politician, diplomat, 42nd Governor of Florida March 23 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, professor at Stanford University March 27 – Michel Guérard, French chef March 28 – Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997) March 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007) March 31 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1983) April April 1 Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996) Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist and Nobel laureate April 4 Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician Brian Hewson, English athlete (d. 2022) April 5 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (Batman) (d. 2005) April 6 – Henryk Niedźwiedzki, Polish boxer (d. 2018) April 7 Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2015) Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Persian-American Islamic scholar April 9 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021) Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (d. 1994) April 11 – Denis Goldberg, South African social campaigner (d. 2020) April 12 Montserrat Caballé, Catalan operatic soprano (d. 2018) Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician April 14 Yuri Oganessian, Russian nuclear physicist Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction author (d. 2012) April 15 Roy Clark, American country musician (d. 2018) Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (Bewitched) (d. 1995) April 16 – Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967) April 21 – Ian Carr, Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer and educator (d. 2009) April 23 – Frederic Pryor, American economist (d. 2019) April 25 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011) April 26 Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and comedian Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005) April 29 Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium Rod McKuen, American singer, songwriter and poet (d. 2015) Willie Nelson, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist April 30 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2016) May May 3 James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Got You (I Feel Good)) (d. 2006) Steven Weinberg, American physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021) May 5 – Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 2-time prime minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2016) May 7 Johnny Unitas,