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Birthdays 1 - 48 of 48

1st - Frank Worrell, cricketer (one of the three W's, inspiring WI captain)
1st - Jeffrey Segal, actor/playwright (Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces)
1st - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
2nd - Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night), (d. 2001)
2nd - James Baldwin, New York, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country), (d. 1987)
2nd - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
3rd - Leon Uris, Baltimore, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)
3rd - Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister (PvdA)
8th - Thomas Beversdorf, composer
10th - Martha Hyer, TX, actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly)
11th - Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush)
12th - Derek Shackleton, England cricket pace bowler (50's)
12th - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
13th - John Milne, CEO (Blue Circles Industries)
14th - Georges Prêtre, French conductor
15th - Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
15th - Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
17th - Evan S Connell, US writer
17th - Helen Wallis, cartographer/librarian
Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly (15th) 17th - John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Kunst & Vliegwerk)
17th - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist
17th - Evan Connell, Kansas City, Missouri, author (The Patriot), (d. 2013)
18th - Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12]
19th - William Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value)
20th - Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim)
21st - Gerald D Lascelles, son of English princess Mary
21st - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
21st - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
22nd - Andrzej Markowski, composer
22nd - James Kirkwood, LA CA, actor/writer (Hired Wife)
22nd - Peter Allsop, publisher
23rd - Denis Sargan, econometrician
23rd - Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer
23rd - Ephraim Kishon, writer
23rd - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia
24th - Louis Teicher, pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus)
26th - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
27th - David Rowbotham, Australian poet
28th - Janet Frame, NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry)
28th - Peggy Ryan, Long Beach California, actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
28th - Tony MacGibbon, NZ cricket fast bowler (took 70 wickets in 1950's)
28th - Vilayat Khan, composer
29th - Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
29th - James W Wood, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
29th - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
30th - Kenny Dorham [McKinley], Fairfield, Texas, jazz trumpeter, (d. 1972)
31st - Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
31st - Klaus Hashagen, composer

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