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Birthdays 1 - 43 of 43

1st - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
2nd - Arthur Beaumont C Langton, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler of 1930's)
3rd - Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
4th - Afro, [Basaldella], Italian painter
4th - John Garfield, NYC, actor (Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez)
4th - Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
6th - Madge Adam, astronomer
8th - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
9th - Alan David Melville, polymath
11th - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
11th - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
12th - James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
12th - Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
12th - Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
12th - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
13th - Ernst Hess, composer
13th - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
13th - James Friell, political cartoonist
14th - Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, American bandleader (d. 2001)
15th - Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
Blues Singer Lightnin' Hopkins (15th) 15th - Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
15th - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
16th - Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
19th - Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot
19th - Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
21st - Peter Bull, actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove)
22nd - Henri Rousselot, admiral
22nd - Lord Alport
22nd - Wilfrid Brambell, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night)
22nd - Karl Malden, Chicago, actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express)
23rd - Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936)
23rd - John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Dodsworth, Razor's Edge)
23rd - Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars)
25th - Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
27th - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
Rocket Scientist Werner von Braun (23rd) 27th - Reuel Lahmer, composer
27th - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
28th - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space)
28th - Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
29th - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
30th - Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist
30th - Jack Cowie, cricketer (successful NZ fast bowler either side of WWII)
31st - Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter

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