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Birthdays 1 - 47 of 47

1st - Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), (d. 2012)
1st - Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress (Some Like It Hot)
2nd - Milo O'Shea, Dublin Ireland, actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet)
3rd - Allen Ginsberg, Newark, New Jersey, American beat poet (Howl)
3rd - Carlos Veerhoff, composer
3rd - Colleen Dewhurst, Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
3rd - Hamilton Fish Jr, (Rep-R-NY, 1969- )
3rd - Janez Maticic, composer
3rd - Roscoe G Bartlett, (Rep-R-Maryland)
4th - Nan Leslie, LA California, actress (Kings Row, Californians)
4th - Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
6th - Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
6th - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
7th - Dick Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, choral director (Andy Williams Show)
8th - Anatol Vieru, composer
8th - Cranley Onslow, MP
8th - Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
9th - Mona Freeman, Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress)
9th - Roy Smalley, shortstop (Cubs, Braves, Phillies, Twins, Yankees)
Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg (3rd) 10th - June Haver, Rock Island, actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door)
10th - Lionel Jeffries, actor (Fanny, Prisoner of Zenda)
10th - Willem Oltmans, Dutch journalist (Outlawed, Free as a Bird)
11th - Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
11th - Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
12th - Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006)
13th - Geoffrey Finsberg, politician
13th - Paul Lynde, Mt Vernon Ohio, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched)
14th - Hermann Kant, writer
14th - Don Newcombe, baseball player
15th - Jan Carlstedt, composer
15th - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
17th - Alan Walters, political economist
17th - Manuel Enriquez, composer
18th - Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay)
18th - Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times)
20th - Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director (Kew Gardens)
21st - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
22nd - Ruth Zechlin, composer
23rd - Lars Johan Werle, composer
25th - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author/poet
25th - Pierre "Peyo" Culliford, Brussels Belgium, cartoonist (Smurfs)
27th - Frank O'Hara, writer
Actor & Director Mel Brooks (28th) 28th - Mel Brooks, New York City, American actor and director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
28th - Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist
28th - Robert Ledley, Flushing, Queens, New York, physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist, (d. 2012)
29th - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
30th - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate

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