player, manager (d. 2018) July 26 Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand and businessman Roger Taylor, English rock musician (Queen) July 28 – Vida Blue, American baseball player July 29 – Jamil Mahuad, President of Ecuador July 31 Mike Jackson, American basketball player Susan Bennett, American voice-over artist August August 1 – Mugur Isărescu, 58th prime minister of Romania August 4 – John Riggins, American football player August 6 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish cleric (d. 2017) August 7 – Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze August 8 Terry Burnham, American actress Keith Carradine, American actor August 9 Slavko Ćuruvija, Serbian journalist, newspaper publisher (d. 1999) Ted Simmons, American baseball player August 11 Ian Charleson, British actor (d. 1990) Sandra Lee Scheuer, Kent State University shooting victim (d. 1970) August 12 Fernando Collor de Mello, 32nd President of Brazil Mark Essex, American mass murderer (d. 1973) Mark Knopfler, British rock guitarist (Dire Straits) August 13 Philippe Petit, French high-wire artist Pete Visclosky, American Politician August 14 – Morten Olsen, Danish football player, manager August 15 Beverly Burns, American pilot, first woman in the world to captain the Boeing 747 Phyllis Smith, American actress August 16 – Barbara Goodson, American voice actress August 17 – Sue Draheim, American fiddler (d. 2013) August 20 – Phil Lynott, Irish rock musician (d. 1986) August 21 Loretta Devine, African-American actress Daniel Sivan, Israeli professor Keetie van Oosten-Hage, Dutch cyclist August 22 – Diana Nyad, American author August 23 William Lane Craig, Christian philosopher Shelley Long, American actress (Cheers) Rick Springfield, Australian rock singer, actor Leslie Van Houten, American criminal, Manson Family member August 24 Anna Lee Fisher, American astronaut, chemist and physician Charles Rocket, American actor (Saturday Night Live) (d. 2005) August 25 Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (d. 1973) Martin Amis, English novelist Gene Simmons, Israeli-American rock musician (Kiss) August 26 – Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and guitarist (d. 2019) August 28 Martin Lamble, British folk rock musician (d. 1969) Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player, coach August 29 – Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler August 30 – Peter Maffay, German singer August 31 Richard Gere, American actor (American Gigolo) H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate September September 1 Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear physicist, government official (d. 2018) Leslie Feinberg, American transgender activist (d. 2014) Tan Soo Khoon, Former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore September 7