3rd President of Soka Gakkai January 3 – Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician (d. 2015) January 5 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979) Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat, politician (d. 2017) January 6 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (d. 2008) January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American writer (The Exorcist) (d. 2017) January 9 Judith Krantz, American novelist (d. 2019) Domenico Modugno, Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994) January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015) January 13 – Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer and manager (d. 2017) January 14 – Hans Kornberg, German-English biochemist (d. 2019) January 16 William Kennedy, American author Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996) January 17 Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973) Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser (d. 2012) January 18 – Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins, English politician and athlete January 21 Gene Sharp, American political theorist of nonviolent action (d. 2018) Reynaldo Bignone, 45th President of Argentina (d. 2018) January 22 – Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1980) January 23 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017) January 24 Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007) January 25 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014) January 26 – Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000) January 27 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier (d. 2023) January 30 – Harold Prince, American stage producer, director (d. 2019) February February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American actor (d. 2020) February 2 – Ciriaco De Mita, Italian politician (d. 2022) February 4 – Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician February 5 – Hristu Cândroveanu, Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (d. 2013) February 9 George Brady, Czech-Canadian businessman and Holocaust survivor (d. 2019) Rinus Michels, Dutch association football player, coach (d. 2005) February 10 – Anthony Prospect, conductor from Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2000) February 13 – Gerald Regan, Canadian politician (d. 2019) February 15 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (d. 2018) February 16 – Pedro Casaldáliga, Spanish-Brazilian prelate and human rights activist (d. 2020) February 18 – John Ostrom, American paleontologist (d. 2005) February 20 – Friedrich Wetter, German Catholic cardinal February 22 Sir Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer (d. 2017) Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian scientist, writer, and administrator (d. 2017) February 23 – Vasily Lazarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1990) February 24 – Naqsh Lyallpuri, Indian ghazal (d. 2017) February