politician and polemicist (d. 2018) December 4 – Geoff Emerick, English recording engineer (d. 2018) December 7 – Clive Russell, English actor December 8 – Julie Heldman, American tennis player December 11 – Sharafuddin of Selangor, Sultan of Selangor December 12 René Pétillon, French satirical, political cartoonist (d. 2018) Portia Simpson-Miller, 2-time Prime Minister of Jamaica Kathy Garver, American actress, author and online radio hostess Donald Pandiangan, Indonesian archery athlete (d. 2008) Heather North, American actress (d. 2017) December 15 Michael King, New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer (d. 2004) Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor December 16 – Patti Deutsch, American voice actress (d. 2017) December 17 – Ernie Hudson, African-American actor December 18 – Carolyn Wood, American professional swimmer December 19 – Elaine Joyce, American actress, game show panelist December 20 Peter Criss, American rock drummer (KISS) Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (d. 2010) December 21 – Mari Lill, Estonian actress December 22 – Diane Sawyer, American news journalist December 23 – Donald A. Ritchie, American historian December 24 Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motörhead) (d. 2015) Nicholas Meyer, American screenwriter, producer, director and novelist Sharafuddin of Selangor, Sultan of Selangor Steve Smith, Canadian actor, comedian and writer December 25 – Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003) December 30 – Davy Jones, English-born pop singer, actor (The Monkees) (d. 2012) December 31 Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan-American actress Vernon Wells, Australian actor Connie Willis, American fiction writer Deaths January January 2 – Sir Bertram Ramsay, British admiral (b. 1883) January 3 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic (b. 1877) January 4 – Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno, 3-time President of Costa Rica (b. 1859) January 6 Josefa Llanes Escoda, Filipino women's suffrage advocate, founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (b. 1898) Vladimir Vernadsky, Soviet mineralogist, geochemist (b. 1863) January 7 Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (b. 1870) Thomas McGuire, American World War II fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1920) Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (killed in action) (b. 1900) January 9 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian statesman (b. 1890) January 10 – Pēteris Juraševskis, 8th Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1872) January 12 – Teresio Olivelli, Italian Roman Catholic soldier and venerable (b. 1916) January 15 – Pedro Abad Santos, Filipino politician, brother of José Abad Santos (b. 1876) January 16 – José Fabella, Filipino physician (b. 1889) January 19 Petar Bojović, Serbian field marshal (b. 1858)