American baseball player (d. 2015) March March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993) March 3 Lys Assia, Swiss singer, first winner of Eurovision Song Contest (1956) (d. 2018) Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military officer and head of state (d. 1966) Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948) March 7 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993) March 8 Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2020) March 9 – Hanna Mina, Syrian writer (d. 2018) March 10 – Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (d. 2018) March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, American civil rights activist (d. 2017) March 18 – Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambique cardinal (d. 2021) March 22 Ivan Minatti, Slovenian poet, translator and editor (d. 2012) Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot (d. 1960) March 24 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998) March 25 Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. 2011) Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (d. 2019) József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1971) March 27 – Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer (d. 1990) March 28 Freddie Bartholomew, English-American actor (d. 1992) Birte Christoffersen, Danish Olympic diver April April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004) April 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (d. 1999) April 7 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009) April 11 Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player (d. 2017) Libuše Havelková, Czech actress (d. 2017) April 12 – Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007) April 13 – Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. 2019) April 14 – Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher and writer (d. 2019) April 15 – Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (d. 2016) April 16 – Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994) April 20 Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008) Leslie Phillips, English actor (d. 2022) April 23 – Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress (d. 2016) April 24 – Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster, chef and politician (d. 2009) April 28 – Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (d. 2021) April 29 Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician (d. 1991) Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress (d. 2020) May May 1 Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic Grégoire Kayibanda, 2nd President of Rwanda (d. 1976) May 2 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor, folk singer and musician