Lee Evans, American Olympic athlete (d. 2021) Doug Yule, American rock singer (The Velvet Underground) February 26 – Sandie Shaw, British singer February 27 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist February 28 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress March March 1 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and television host (d. 2016) March 2 – Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor (d. 1989) March 3 – Óscar Washington Tabárez, Uruguayan football manager and former player March 4 Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (d. 2015) March 6 Kiki Dee, English pop singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart) Dick Fosbury, American athlete Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer, director and activist (All in the Family) John Stossel, American journalist March 7 – Walter Röhrl, German racing driver March 8 Carole Bayer Sager, American singer, songwriter Michael S. Hart, American author, inventor (d. 2011) March 9 – Ryszard Peryt, Polish conductor, librettist (d. 2019) March 10 – Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada March 11 – Geoff Hunt, Australian squash player March 12 Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist Mitt Romney, American businessman, politician, Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 presidential candidate, and US Senator (R-Ut.) March 13 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician, cellist (d. 2018) March 15 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist March 16 Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist March 17 Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer, producer Zhandra Rodríguez, Venezuelan ballet dancer March 18 – Tamara Griesser Pečar, Slovenian historian March 19 – Glenn Close, American actress March 21 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen (d. 2017) March 22 – James Patterson, American author March 24 Mike Kellie, English rock musician (d. 2017) Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist and writer Alan Sugar, English entrepreneur March 25 – Elton John, English singer-songwriter and composer March 26 – Subhash Kak, Indian-American author March 31 Wong Choon Wah, Malaysian footballer (d. 2014) César Gaviria, Colombian economist, politician and 28th President of Colombia April April 1 Alain Connes, French mathematician Ingrid Steeger, German actress, comedian Tzipi Shavit, Israeli actress April 2 Paquita la del Barrio, Mexican singer, actress Emmylou Harris, American singer, songwriter Camille Paglia, American literary critic April 5 – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines, daughter of president Diosdado Macapagal April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor (Cheers) April 7 – Florian Schneider, German musician (d. 2020) April 10 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae musician (d. 2021) April 12 Tom Clancy,