actress, producer and political activist November 9 – Gladys Requena, Venezuelan politician November 13 – Art Malik, Pakistani-born British actor November 14 – Maggie Roswell, American actress November 15 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (d. 2011) November 16 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese game designer November 17 Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa November 18 – John Parr, English singer, songwriter and guitarist November 23 – Sharon O'Neill, New Zealand singer-songwriter and pianist November 24 – Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer and author November 28 – S. Epatha Merkerson, African-American actress (Law and Order) November 29 – John D. Barrow, English cosmologist, theoretical physicist and mathematician (d. 2020) November 30 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer December December 1 Rick Scott, American politician, 45th Governor of Florida, U.S. Senator (Florida) Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, educator, and philanthropist (d. 2019) December 3 Bruno Jonas, German Kabarett artist, actor Mel Smith, British comedian (d. 2013) Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Malaysian politician December 6 Nicolas Bréhal, French novelist, literary critic Edward Etzel, American Olympic shooter Christian Kulik, Polish football player December 9 – Michael Dorn, African-American actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation) December 12 Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, Canadian politician Sarah Douglas, English actress December 15 Julie Taymor, American film, stage and opera director, costume designer Hwang Woo-suk, South Korean biomedical scientist Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer and coach December 16 – Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer December 20 Jenny Agutter, English actress Faisal Al-Fayez, Prime Minister of Jordan December 25 – Youssouf Ouédraogo, 6th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2017) December 26 – Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (d. 2016) December 27 David Knopfler, British musician Tovah Feldshuh, American actress December 28 – Arun Jaitley, Indian politician (d. 2019) December 29 – Külliki Saldre, Estonian actress December 30 – June Anderson, American soprano Deaths January January 1 – Henri Albert Hartmann, French surgeon (b. 1860) January 2 – Gustave Francq, Canadian typographer and trade unionist (b. 1871) January 4 – Constant Permeke, Belgian painter (b. 1886) January 5 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1869) January 6 – Sofoklis Dousmanis, Greek naval officer (b. 1868) January 8 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer (b. 1866) January 9 – Andrea Cassulo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary (b. 1869) January 11 Stanisław Stempowski, Polish politician (b. 1870) Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French