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Months in Year 1939: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 725

Jan 1st - Michèle Mercier, French actress
Jan 2nd - Jim Bakker, televangelist (PTL Club)/rapist (Jessica Hahn)
Jan 3rd - Bobby Hull, NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72)
Jan 3rd - Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
Jan 3rd - Janice Crosio, Australian politician
Jan 4th - Jon Appleton, composer
Jan 5th - Bridget Parker, England, equestrian 3 day event (Olympic-gold-1972)
Jan 5th - Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher
Jan 6th - Murray Rose, Nairn Scotland, Australian Olympic swimmer (4x oly gold), (d. 2012)
Jan 7th - David Buchan, ethno-musicologist
Jan 7th - Tom Kierman, British(?) rugby player
Jan 7th - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
Jan 10th - Bill Toomey, Phila Pa, decathelete (Olympic-gold-68)
Jan 10th - Sal Mineo, NYC, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause)
Jan 10th - Jared Carter, American poet
Jan 10th - David Horowitz, American author and political commentator
Jan 10th - William Levy, Dutch writer
Jan 10th - Scott McKenzie, American singer, (d. 2012)
Jan 11th - Anne Heggtveigt, Canada, slalom (Olympic-gold-1960)
Jan 11th - Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
Jan 12th - Helmut Eisendle, writer
Jan 12th - Jacobus M "Jacques" Hamelink, Dutch writer/poet (Cold Unrest)
Jan 13th - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
Jan 15th - Charles Christopher Steel, composer
Jan 16th - Cliff Thorburn, English snookers player
Jan 17th - Antao D'Souza, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in six Tests 1959-62)
Jan 17th - Maury Povich, TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung
Jan 17th - Toini Gustafson, Sweden, 5K/10K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1968)
Jan 18th - Bernard Glassman, NY, Zen teacher/head (Zen Center of NY)
Jan 20th - Murle Breer, LPGA golfer
Jan 20th - Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Indian astronomer
Jan 20th - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
Jan 21st - Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
Jan 22nd - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
Jan 23rd - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
Jan 23rd - Arlene Golonka, American actress
Jan 24th - Ray Stevens, Clarksdale Ga, singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak)
Jan 25th - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
Jan 26th - Marshall Lieb, rocker (Teddy Bears)
Jan 27th - Mike Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1977 Ohio Kings Island Open)
Jan 27th - N R Bomford, head master (Harrow School)
Jan 27th - Rawlings, Baroness
Jan 27th - Tigran Yegiayi Mansuryan, composer
Jan 28th - John M Fabian, Goosecreek Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 7, STS 51G)
Jan 29th - Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich)
Jan 29th - O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
Jan 30th - Eleanor Smeal, feminist/pres (NOW)
Jan 30th - Frank R Wolf, (Rep-R-VA, 1981- )
Jan 30th - Nick Gaselee, racehorse trainer
Jan 31st - Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
Feb 1st - Del McCoury, bluegrass singer/musician
Feb 1st - Paul E Gillmor, (Rep-R-Ohio)
Feb 1st - Claude François, French singer (d. 1978)
Feb 2nd - Rachel English, London, author (My 1st 500)
Feb 2nd - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran (d. 2000)
Feb 3rd - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut
Feb 4th - Jacques Charlier, Belgian sculptor
Feb 4th - John Schuck, Boston Mass, comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yoyo)
Feb 4th - Stan Lundine, (Rep-D-NY, 1976-86)
Feb 5th - Brian Luckhurst, cricketer (England opener of 60's & early 70's)
Feb 5th - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
Feb 6th - Mike Farrell, St Paul Minn, actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered)
Feb 8th - Gerrit Lakmaaker, sculptor/painter (Leidsepleingroep)
Feb 8th - José Maria Sison, Filipino communist
Feb 9th - Barry Mann, R&B singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
Feb 9th - Janet Suzman, South African actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run)
Feb 10th - Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
Feb 10th - Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)
Feb 10th - Roberta Flack, NC, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
Feb 10th - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
Feb 11th - Bryan Gould, MP
Feb 11th - Gerry Goffin, Queens NY, rock lyricist (married Carole King)
Feb 11th - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood)
Feb 12th - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (Doors-Light My Fire, Unknown Soldier)
Feb 12th - John D Hancock, actor/director (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
Feb 13th - Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
Feb 13th - Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter
Feb 14th - Chris Pyne, trombonist
Feb 14th - Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer (Donkeys' Years)
Feb 15th - Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)
Feb 15th - Tony Bloom, deputy CEO (Sketchley)
Feb 15th - Robert Hansen, American serial killer
Feb 16th - David Griffiths, portrait painter
Feb 16th - Harold Kalin, singer
Feb 17th - Mary Ann Mobley, Biloxi Ms, Miss America-1959/actr (Diff'rent Strokes)
Feb 17th - John Leyton, British singer
Feb 18th - Claude Ake, political scientist
Feb 18th - Marlos Nobre, composer
Feb 18th - Petronella CM "Carletta" Banning, actress (Potasch & Perlemoer)
Feb 18th - Dal Maxvill, American baseball player
Feb 18th - Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
Feb 19th - Gwen Taylor, British actress (Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming)
Feb 20th - Barbara Ellis, Olympia Wa, rocker (Fleetwoods)
Feb 20th - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher
Feb 20th - Frank Arundel, English footballer
Feb 21st - Richard Beymer, Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
Feb 21st - Ron Nagle, rock producer (Riding with the King)
Feb 22nd - Steve Barber, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees)
Feb 23rd - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher
Feb 23rd - Josef Feistmantl, Austria, lugeist (Olympic-gold-1964)
Feb 23rd - Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)
Feb 24th - George Bain, principal (London Business School)
Feb 25th - A C F Verity, master (Dulwich College)
Feb 25th - Marisa Mell, Graz Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
Feb 26th - Josephine Tewson, English actress
Feb 27th - Antoinette Sibley, ballerina (Turning Point)
Feb 27th - Kenzo Takada, Japanese director (Dream After Dream)
Feb 27th - Lester King, cricketer (WI fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68, 9 wkts)
Feb 27th - Peter Revson, auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
Feb 28th - Charles Brown, Cin Oh, featherweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
Feb 28th - John Fahey, singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
Feb 28th - Tommy Tune, Wichita Falls Tx, dancer/choreographer (Boyfriend)
Mar 1st - Leo Brouwer, composer
Mar 1st - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
Mar 2nd - Barbara Luna, NYC, actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage)
Mar 2nd - Gerard van Tongeren, Dutch singer (Buffoons)
Mar 3rd - Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole)
Mar 3rd - M L Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties)
Mar 4th - James Aubrey Turner, scientist
Mar 4th - Paula Prentiss, [Ragusa] San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & She)
Mar 4th - Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
Mar 5th - Charles Fuller, US writer (Zooman, Soldier Story)
Mar 5th - Samantha Eggar, London, actress (Collector, Dr Doolittle) [or May 3]
Mar 5th - Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire
Mar 5th - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
Mar 6th - Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri)
Mar 6th - David Spielberg, Weslaco Tx, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice)
Mar 6th - Jerry Naylor, Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets)
Mar 6th - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
Mar 6th - Cookie Rojas, baseball player
Mar 7th - Marion Marlowe, St Louis Mo, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
Mar 7th - Panajot Pano, Albania's most outstanding football player of the past 50 years born in Durres
Mar 8th - George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy)
Mar 8th - Jim Bouton, Newark NJ, pitcher (NY Yankees)/author (Ball Four)
Mar 8th - Lydia Skoblikova, USSR, speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64)
Mar 8th - Mike Lowry, (Rep-D-WA, 1979- )
Mar 8th - Robert Tear, Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
Mar 8th - Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
Mar 10th - Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
Mar 11th - Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
Mar 11th - Flaco Jiménez, American musician
Mar 12th - Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
Mar 12th - David Mlinaric, British interior director
Mar 13th - Neil Sedaka, Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
Mar 14th - Bertrand Blier, Paris France, novelist/director (Going Places)
Mar 14th - William Benjamin Lenoir, Miami Florida, astronaut (STS 5)
Mar 14th - Raymond J. Barry, American actor
Mar 14th - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
Mar 15th - Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
Mar 15th - Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author

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