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Birthdays 1 - 57 of 57

1st - Joan Frances Will, actress
1st - Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
2nd - Jack Webb, Santa Monica California, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet)
3rd - Stan Freeman, Waterbury Conn, pianist (Melody Tour)
3rd - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi and convicted war criminal (under appeal at death), (d. 2012)
4th - Eric Rohmer, Nancy France, actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval)
5th - Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport)
5th - Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier (1971-73)
5th - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
6th - Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
7th - Ravi Shankar, Varanasi, British India, musician (the Pandit), (d. 2012)
7th - Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
8th - Carmen McRae (Clark), US jazz singer/pianist (Dream of Life)
8th - Erik Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
9th - Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)
9th - Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
9th - David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
9th - F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
11th - Marlen Haushofer, writer
Musician Ravi Shankar (7th) 12th - H R Hewitt, CEO (Johnson Matthey)
12th - Robert Fizdale, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Misia)
13th - Liam Cosgrave, leader (Fine Gael Party)
13th - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
13th - Claude Cheysson, French politician
13th - John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
14th - Eduardo Maturana, composer
14th - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
15th - Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
15th - Thomas Szasz, Budapest, Hungary, psychiatrist (The Myth of Mental Illness, The Manufacture of Madness), (d. 2012)
16th - Barry Nelson, Oakland, actor (Airport, My Favorite Husband)
16th - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor
16th - John William Farr, Detroit, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
16th - Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo)
17th - Bengt N Anderberg, Swedish poet/writer (Kain)
17th - Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter
18th - Walter Clegg, MP
19th - Frank Fontaine, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Crazy Guggenheim)
20th - John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
20th - Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
21st - Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer, Hyperion) [or Mar 21]
21st - Christopher Dark, NY, actor, Suddenly, Tenderfoot)
21st - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
22nd - Hal March, SF California, actor/TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage)
22nd - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Misery of the Word)
23rd - Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
23rd - Louis Barron, composer
25th - Jean Carmet, actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic)
25th - Marre, reformer of the bar
26th - Juan C Lampe, Aruba, pianist/composer
27th - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
27th - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
27th - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
28th - Nan Merriman, US/Neth singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orch)
29th - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster
29th - Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
30th - Duncan Hamilton, driver
30th - Leen 't Hart, Dutch organist/composer

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