1996) Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2020) November 11 – Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish athlete (d. 2015) November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and murderer (d. 2017) November 13 – Garry Marshall, American film producer, director and actor (d. 2016) November 21 – Carl-Henning Wijkmark, Swedish novelist and translator (d. 2020) November 23 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis champion (d. 1994) November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Soviet (Volga German) composer (d. 1998) November 30 – Lansana Conté, President of Guinea (d. 2008) December December 1 – Billy Paul, African-American singer (d. 2016) December 3 Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian politician, leader of Shining Path (d. 2021) Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017) December 5 – Joan Didion, American novelist (d. 2021) December 8 – Alisa Freindlich, Soviet and Russian actress December 9 Judi Dench, English actress Junior Wells, American harmonica player (d. 1998) December 10 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994) December 11 – Radha Viswanathan, Indian vocalist, classical dancer (d. 2018) December 12 – Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd president of Mexico (d. 2012) December 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American producer (d. 2012) December 14 – Shyam Benegal, Indian film director and screenwriter December 15 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 6th president of Somalia (d. 2012) December 16 – Meng Zhizhong, Chinese engineer (d. 2019) December 17 – Shan Tianfang, Chinese pingshu performer (d. 2018) December 18 Marc Rich, Belgian-born commodities trader (d. 2013) Boris Volynov, Russian cosmonaut December 19 Aki Aleong, Trinidad and Tobago-born American actor Pratibha Patil, President of India December 24 – Stjepan Mesić, 2nd President of Croatia December 25 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018) December 27– Larisa Latynina, Ukrainian gymnast December 28 Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (d. 2019) Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet, writer and filmmaker (d. 1967) Maggie Smith, English actress Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987) December 30 Del Shannon, American singer (Runaway) (d. 1990) Russ Tamblyn, American film and television actor Deaths January January 1 – Jakob Wassermann, German writer (b. 1873) January 6 – Herbert Chapman, English football manager (b. 1878) January 7 – Augustin Dubail, French general (b. 1851) January 8 – Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880) January 10 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (b. 1909) January 11