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Birthdays 1 - 70 of 70

1st - Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster
1st - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1st - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
2nd - Billy Usselton, saxophonist
2nd - Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)
2nd - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
3rd - Johnny Coles, trumpeter
3rd - Joseph M Gaydos, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
3rd - William Roll, Bremen, Germany, parapsychologist (The Poltergeist, Unsolved Mysteries), (d. 2012)
4th - Mary Stuart, Miami Fla, actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow)
4th - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
5th - Haya van Someren-Downer, 2nd Member of parliament (Dutch Lib Party)
5th - Kenneth Gaburo, composer
6th - Nicky Hilton, 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor
8th - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author/physician/educator
8th - John D Dingell, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1955- )
9th - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
10th - Carleton Carpenter, Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock)
10th - Fred Gwynne, NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
11th - Patrick Wymark, Cleethorpes England, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia)
11th - Ralph D Abernathy, US, president (SCLC)
11th - Rodolfo Arizaga, composer
11th - Frederick Buechner, American author
12th - Beah Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot, Generation)
13th - Meyer Kupferman, NYC, composer (In Fimi Tres)
14th - Harry Dean Stanton, West Irvine KY, actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke)
14th - Jan Krenz, composer
15th - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer
15th - John Graham, British ambassador to NATO
15th - Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
15th - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
16th - Brian Howard, deputy chairman (Marks & Spencer)
16th - Philip Randle, biochemist
16th - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
17th - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
17th - Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
18th - Bryan Johnson, singer/actor
18th - Jane Hylton, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot, Daybreak)
18th - Richard Pasco, English actor (Gorgon, Arch of Triumph)
18th - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
18th - Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
19th - Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
19th - Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
19th - Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
20th - Lola Albright, American actress
20th - Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
21st - Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner
21st - Karel Reisz, director (Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain)
21st - Norman Jewison, director (Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All)
21st - Paul Burke, New Orleans, actor (Thomas Crown Affair) [or Jan 21]
21st - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
21st - Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
22nd - Bryan Forbes, director/producer (Endless Games, King Rat)
22nd - Peter Michael Grayson, showman
23rd - Ludvik Vaculik, writer
24th - Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
24th - James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)
25th - Teodor Grigoriu, composer
25th - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
26th - Barbara Jefford, actress (Saint, Reunion, Ulysses)
26th - Don Carter, bowling great (1st PBA president)
26th - James Best [Jewel Franklin Guy], Powderly, Kentucky, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Sounder)
26th - Ana María Matute, Spanish author
27th - Peter Coker, captain
28th - Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
29th - Don Carter, bowler, 6-time Bowler of Year (1953-54, 57-58, 60-61)
29th - Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
29th - Donald Carter, St Louis, Missouri, professional bowler, six-time bowler of the year, (d. 2012)
30th - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
31st - Hilary Putnam, American philosopher

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