President of the Comoros January 4 – Vanity, Canadian singer and actress (d. 2016) January 9 – Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize January 16 – Sade, Nigerian-English singer January 17 Susanna Hoffs, American rock vocalist Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer January 22 – Linda Blair, American actress January 24 – Kevin Magee, American basketball player (d. 2003) January 27 – Keith Olbermann, American news anchor and sportscaster January 30 – Jody Watley, African-American singer February February 1 – Wade Wilson, American football player and coach (d. 2019) February 4 – Lawrence Taylor, American football player February 5 – Jennifer Granholm, Canadian-American politician, 47th Governor of Michigan (2003–2011) February 8 Andrew Hoy, Australian equestrian Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina February 9 – Joachim Kunz, East German Olympic weightlifter February 13 Benur Pashayan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler (d. 2019) February 14 – Renée Fleming, American soprano February 16 – John McEnroe, American tennis player February 18 – Jayne Atkinson, English-born American film, theatre and television actress February 22 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor February 23 – Clayton Anderson, American astronaut February 26 – Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player March March 1 – Nick Griffin, British politician March 4 – Irina Strakhova, Russian race walker March 5 – Vazgen Sargsyan, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999) March 6 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian March 7 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer March 8 – Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor March 9 – Takaaki Kajita, Japanese nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics March 11 – Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist and businessman March 13 – Kathy Hilton, American socialite and philanthropist March 15 – Eliot Teltscher, American tennis player March 16 – Jens Stoltenberg, 27th Prime Minister of Norway March 17 – Danny Ainge, American basketball player, coach and baseball player March 18 Luc Besson, French film producer, writer and director Irene Cara, American singer and actress (d. 2022) March 21 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor March 28 – Laura Chinchilla, 49th president of Costa Rica March 30 – Andrew Bailey, executive director banking and chief cashier at the Bank of England April April 2 Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina Badou Ezzaki, Moroccan football player and manager April 3 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor April 15 Ray Neufeld, Canadian ice hockey player Adriano Ruchini, Italian businessman