April 17 William Holden, American actor (d. 1981) Frank Popper, French historian (d. 2020) Anne Shirley, American actress (d. 1993) April 18 Gabriel Axel, Danish film director (d. 2014) Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter (d. 2018) Clifton Hillegass, American author, founder of CliffsNotes (d. 2001) Claudio Teehankee, Filipino lawyer (d. 1989) April 20 Edward L. Beach Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002) Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) April 22 William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015) Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008) April 24 – Lou Dorfsman, American graphic designer (d. 2008) April 26 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004) April 27 – John Rice, American baseball umpire (d. 2011) April 28 Mildred Persinger, American feminist (d. 2018) Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, East German journalist, host of the television show Der schwarze Kanal (d. 2001) Rodger Wilton Young, United States Army soldier, remembered in the song "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (d. 1943) April 29 George Allen, American football coach (d. 1990) Nils Östensson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1949) May May 1 Jack Paar, American television show host (The Tonight Show) (d. 2004) Li Yaowen, Chinese politician, general and diplomat (d. 2018) May 3 – Richard Dudman, American reporter, editorial writer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) (d. 2017) May 4 Kakuei Tanaka, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993) Ana Enriqueta Terán, Venezuelan poet (d. 2017) May 5 – Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest (d. 2005) May 6 Henrietta Boggs, Costa Rican-American author, journalist and activist (d. 2020) Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st President of the United Arab Emirates (d. 2004) May 9 Russell M. Carneal, American politician, judge (d. 1998) Orville Freeman, American politician (d. 2003) Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012) May 10 T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician (d. 2018) George Welch, American aviator (d. 1954) May 11 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) May 12 – Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953) May 15 Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008) Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (d. 2009) May 16 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000) May 17 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005) May 18 Claudia Bryar, American actress (d. 2011) Joe Krush, American illustrator (d. 2022) May 19 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000) May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or