Tunis July 21 Beppe Grillo, Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor Ed Hinton, American sportswriter Cat Stevens (b. Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam), British singer, musician Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist (Doonesbury) Teruzane Utada, Japanese music executive producer, attendant Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian, writer Snooty, male Florida manatee (d. 2017) July 22 Susan Eloise Hinton, American author Otto Waalkes, German comedian, actor July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician July 25 Steve Goodman, American Grammy Award-winning folk music singer, songwriter (d. 1984) Tony Cline, American football player (d. 2018) July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater July 28 Gerald Casale, American director, singer (Devo)\ Georgia Engel, American actress (d. 2019) Sally Struthers, American actress, spokeswoman (All in the Family) July 30 Jean Reno, French actor Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer, musician (d. 2010) July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, English academic sociologist, cultural theorist August August 2 Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host, author Bob Rae, Canadian politician August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France August 4 – Giorgio Parisi, Italian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate August 7 – James P. Allison, American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine August 8 – Wincey Willis, British broadcaster August 12 – Mizengo Pinda, 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania August 13 – Kathleen Battle, African-American soprano August 14 – Joseph Marcell, English actor August 15 Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric, politician (d. 2018) George Ryton, Singapore-born English Formula One engineer August 18 – Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor (d. 2017) Robert Hughes, Australian actor Deana Martin, American singer and actress August 20 John Noble, Australian actor Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin) Barbara Allen Rainey (b. Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces (d. 1982) August 21 Sharon M. Draper, American children's book author (Out of My Mind (Draper novel)) Peter Starkie, Australian rock guitarist (Skyhooks, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons) August 22 – David Marks, American guitarist (The Beach Boys) August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet, Russian physicist August 24 Jean-Michel Jarre, French electronic musician Sauli Niinistö, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland Kim Sung-il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force Vicente Sotto III, Filipino actor, host and politician August 25 – Tony Ramos, Brazilian actor August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler August 30 Lewis Black, American comedian Fred Hampton,