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Jan 1st - Kinue Hitoma, Japan, 800m runner (Oly-silver-1928)
Jan 2nd - Ben Grauer, NYC, newscaster (Big Story)
Jan 2nd - Janis Kepitis, composer
Jan 4th - Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal, Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
Jan 4th - Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
Jan 5th - George Dolenz, Trieste Italy, actor (Count of Monte Cristo)
Jan 6th - Menahem Avidom, composer
Jan 7th - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
Jan 8th - (Fearless) Mary Nadia Wadia, actress
Jan 8th - William Hartnell, London England, actor (Agitator, Jackpot)
Jan 9th - Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
Jan 10th - Bernard Lee, London England, actor (M in James Bond movies)
Jan 10th - Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
Jan 10th - Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
Jan 11th - Lionel Stander, NYC, actor (Max-Hart to Hart, Unfaithfully Yours)
Jan 12th - Ben Seijes, Dutch historian (WW II)
Jan 12th - Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (I, Odysseus)
Jan 12th - Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
Jan 14th - Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor (Address Unknown, Hitler)
Jan 14th - Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo, US singer/actor (Miracle of Women)
Jan 15th - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
Jan 15th - Roberta Bitgood, composer
Jan 16th - Ethel Merman, stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam)
Jan 16th - Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
Jan 17th - Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer
Jan 17th - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
Jan 18th - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59)
Jan 18th - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
Jan 18th - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
Jan 19th - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
Jan 20th - Ian Peebles, cricketer (Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31)
Jan 20th - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer (Masquerade)
Jan 20th - Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
Jan 23rd - Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
Jan 23rd - Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer
Jan 25th - Lord Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar)
Jan 25th - W H V "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper (England in 1 Test in Calcutta)
Jan 26th - Stephane Grappelli, British (?) jazz/violinist
Jan 26th - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
Jan 27th - William Randolph Hearst Jr, newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
Jan 27th - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
Jan 28th - Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor/director/writer (Fear)
Jan 28th - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
Jan 29th - Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY, 1945-70)
Jan 31st - René Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934)
Feb 1st - Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
Feb 1st - Edward Staempfli, composer
Feb 1st - George Pal, Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
Feb 2nd - Anita Garvin, actress (Swiss Miss, Blotto, Charlatan, Hats Off)
Feb 2nd - Cal Tinney, Okla, comedian (Stop Me If You Heard This One)
Feb 2nd - Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, Calif, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)/actor
Feb 2nd - Pavel Sivic, composer
Feb 2nd - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer
Feb 2nd - Wes Ferrell, All-Star MLB pitcher (d. 1976)
Feb 3rd - Oddbjorn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
Feb 4th - Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter
Feb 4th - Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Mass, newscaster (All Star News)
Feb 5th - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)
Feb 6th - Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy
Feb 6th - Edward Lansdale, general/model (Quiet American, Ugly American)
Feb 6th - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
Feb 8th - Grigor Eghiazaryan, composer
Feb 8th - Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, missionary
Feb 8th - Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
Feb 9th - Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
Feb 10th - Jean Coulthard, composer
Feb 11th - Josh White, rocker
Feb 11th - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist
Feb 11th - Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer (British Antarctic Survey)
Feb 12th - Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931)
Feb 12th - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982)
Feb 12th - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982)
Feb 13th - Gerald Strang, Claresholm Canada, composer
Feb 13th - Pauline Frederick, journalist/correspondent (UN, NBC TV)
Feb 13th - Sulo Nurmela, Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
Feb 15th - Sidney Gilliat, producer
Feb 15th - Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer (Reade Runen)
Feb 15th - Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
Feb 17th - Staats Cotsworth, Oak Park IL, actor (Peyton Place)
Feb 17th - Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
Feb 20th - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)
Feb 20th - Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix
Feb 22nd - John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
Feb 22nd - Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
Feb 23rd - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
Feb 25th - Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
Feb 26th - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
Feb 26th - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
Feb 26th - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
Feb 28th - Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
Feb 28th - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
Feb 29th - Alf Gover, cricketer (bowled in 4 Tests for England/famous coach)
Feb 29th - Balthus, painter (Valerie)
Mar 2nd - Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
Mar 2nd - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
Mar 2nd - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
Mar 3rd - Riccardo Nielsen, composer
Mar 4th - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [NS=Mar 17]
Mar 5th - Rex Harrison, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle)
Mar 5th - Sophie Stewart, Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe)
Mar 5th - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
Mar 5th - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
Mar 7th - Anna Magnani, Alexandria Egypt, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle)
Mar 7th - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member (CPN)
Mar 7th - Tomas de Manzarraga, composer
Mar 9th - Luiz Cosme, composer
Mar 10th - Carl Albert, US speaker of house (1971-77)
Mar 10th - Kristian Palusalu, Finland, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1936)
Mar 11th - Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orch leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
Mar 12th - David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician
Mar 12th - Inez Courtney, NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
Mar 12th - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
Mar 13th - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
Mar 13th - Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
Mar 13th - Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB
Mar 14th - Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher
Mar 14th - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
Mar 14th - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; d. 1991)
Mar 16th - Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)
Mar 17th - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS=Mar 4]
Mar 17th - Radie Britain, composer
Mar 17th - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
Mar 18th - Louis Gaste, songwriter
Mar 20th - Frank Stanton, Muskegon Mich, broadcasting executive (CBS)
Mar 20th - Michael Redgrave, Bristol Eng, actor (Browning Version, Lady Vanishes)
Mar 20th - Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (Czardasvorstin)
Mar 21st - Maurice Stans, rocker
Mar 22nd - Albrecht Goes, writer
Mar 22nd - Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
Mar 22nd - Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
Mar 23rd - Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate
Mar 23rd - Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur], Texas, actress (Mildred Pierce)
Mar 25th - Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
Mar 25th - David Lean, Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
Mar 26th - Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)
Mar 26th - Hank Sylvern, Bkln NY, orch leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
Mar 26th - Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935)
Mar 26th - Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist
Mar 26th - Robert William Paine, architect
Mar 27th - Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
Mar 29th - Arthur O'Connell, NYC, actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years)
Mar 29th - Dennis O'Keefe, Fort Madison IA, actor/dir (T-Men, Fighting Seabees)
Mar 30th - Camille Schmit, composer
Mar 30th - Kurt Bruggemann, composer
Mar 30th - Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, Chinese cricket bowler
Mar 31st - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
Apr 1st - Abraham H Maslow, US psychologist (humanistic psychology)
Apr 2nd - Buddy Ebsen, Belleville Il, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)
Apr 4th - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, author (Cheaper by the Dozen)
Apr 5th - Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)