2012) April 17 – James Last, German composer and bandleader (d. 2015) April 21 Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician, First Lady (d. 2019) Bevin Hough, New Zealand sportsman (d. 2019) April 22 Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (d. 2019) John Nicks, English figure skater and skating coach April 24 Shammi, Indian actress (d. 2018) Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2006) April 25 – Abderrahmane Mahjoub, French and Moroccan international football (soccer) midfielder (d. 2011) April 26 – Alexandre Lamfalussy, Hungarian-Belgian economist and central banker (d. 2015) April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, Mexican actress (d. 2017) April 30 – Klausjürgen Wussow, German actor (d. 2007) May May 1 – Ralf Dahrendorf, Anglo-German sociologist (d. 2009) May 2 Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor and director (d. 2019) Link Wray, American rock and roll musician (d. 2005) Édouard Balladur, 91st Prime Minister of France May 3 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish physician, "father of modern dental implantology" (d. 2014) May 4 Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (d. 2005) Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress and activist (d. 1993) May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010) May 6 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2007) May 8 Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (d. 2017) Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese singer, actress (d. 2007) May 12 Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (d. 2019) Sam Nujoma, 1st President of Namibia May 13 – Ângela Maria, Brazilian singer and actress (d. 2018) May 15 – Otar Patsatsia, Georgian politician (d. 2021) May 16 Betty Carter, African-American jazz singer (d. 1998) Adrienne Rich, American poet and essayist (d. 2012) May 20 Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier (d. 1973) Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (d. 2021) May 25 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007) May 26 Ernie Carroll, Australian television personality and producer (d. 2022) John Jackson, English businessman Alfred Kunz, German-Canadian composer (d. 2019) May 29 Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Dwijen Sharma, Bangladeshi naturalist (d. 2017) May 30 – Doina Cornea, Romanian human rights activist, professor (d. 2018) May 31 Joseph Bernardo, French Olympic swimmer Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (d. 2014) June June 3 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and Nobel laureate June 4 Rolf Leeser, Dutch footballer and fashion designer (d. 2018) Karolos Papoulias, President of Greece (d. 2021) Kapil Narayan Tiwari, Indian activist and politician (d. 2022) June 6