Year (''' MCMXXVIII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
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- January 2
- --- Robert Goralski - American journalist at Voice Of America , NBC News (d. 1988 )
- --- Daisaku Ikeda - Japanese President of the Nichiren Buddhist religious organization, the Soka Gakkai International
- January 5
- --- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto , President Of Pakistan and Prime Minister Of Pakistan (d. 1979 )
- --- Walter Mondale , U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
- January 6 - George H. Ross , American senior vice president of Trump Organization
- January 7 - William Peter Blatty , American writer
- January 10 - Philip Levine , American poet
- January 11 - David L. Wolper , American television producer
- January 16 - William Kennedy , American author
- January 17
- --- Jean Barraqué , French composer (d. 1973 )
- --- Vidal Sassoon , English hairdresser
- January 23 - Chico Carrasquel , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005 )
- January 23 - Jeanne Moreau , French actress
- January 24 - Desmond Morris , English anthropologist and writer
- January 26 - Roger Vadim , French film director (d. 2000 )
- January 30 - Hal Prince , American stage producer and director
- February 5 - Andrew Greeley , American Catholic priest and novelist
- February 9
- --- Frank Frazetta , American illustrator
- --- Roger Mudd , American journalist
- February 22 - Bruce Forsyth , English entertainer
- February 23 - Vasili Lazarev , cosmonaut (d. 1990 )
- February 23 - Ralph Earnhardt , American Race car driver (d. 1973 )
- February 26
- --- Fats Domino , American musician
- --- Anatoli Filipchenko , cosmonaut
- February 27 - Ariel Sharon , Prime Minister Of Israel
- March 4
- --- Samuel Adler , American composer
- --- Alan Sillitoe , English writer
- March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 8 - Gerald Bull , Canadian engineer (d. 1990 )
- March 10 - James Earl Ray , American assassin (d. 1998 )
- March 12 - Edward Albee , American dramatist
- March 16 - Christa Ludwig , German mezzo-soprano
- March 19
- --- Hans Küng , Swiss theologian
- --- Patrick McGoohan , Irish actor
- March 20 - Fred Rogers , American children's television host (d. 2003 )
- March 24 - Byron Janis , American pianist
- March 25 - Jim Lovell , astronaut
- March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski , Polish-born U.S. National Security Advisor
- March 31
- --- Gordie Howe , Canadian hockey player
- --- Lefty Frizzell , American country music performer
- April 1
- --- Jane Powell , American dancer, actress, and singer
- --- George Grizzard , American actor
- April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg , French singer (d. 1991 )
- April 4 - Maya Angelou , American poet and novelist
- April 6 - James D. Watson , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- April 7
- --- James Garner , American actor
- --- Alan J. Pakula , American producer and director (d. 1998 )
- --- James White , Irish writer (d. 1999 )
- April 8 - Eric Porter , English actor (d. 1995 )
- April 9 - Tom Lehrer , American songwriter
- April 12 - Jean-François Paillard , French conductor
- April 19
- --- Alexis Korner , British musician (d. 1984 )
- --- Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu , King of Malaysia
- April 23 - Shirley Temple , American actress and politician
- May 1 - Desmond Titterington , Irish race car driver (d. 2002 )
- May 3 - Dave Dudley , American singer (d. 2003 )
- May 4
- --- Maynard Ferguson , Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. 2006 )
- --- Hosni Mubarak , President Of Egypt
- May 8 - Theodore Sorenson , American lawyer and speechwriter
- May 9
- --- Colin Chapman , English automotive engineer (d. 1982 )
- --- Pancho Gonzalez , American tennis player (d. 1995 )
- --- Barbara Ann Scott , Canadian figure skater
- May 12 - Burt Bacharach , American composer
- May 13 - Jim Shoulders , American rodeo cowboy
- May 16 - Billy Martin , baseball player and manager (d. 1989 )
- May 18 - Pernell Roberts , American actor
- May 23 - Rosemary Clooney , American singer and actress (d. 2002 )
- May 26 - Jack Kevorkian , American physician
- June 1
- --- Georgi Dobrovolski , cosmonaut (d. 1971 )
- --- Bob Monkhouse , English comedian and game show host (d. 2003 )
- June 9 - Jackie Mason , - American comedian
- June 12 - Richard M. Sherman , American songwriter
- June 13 - John Forbes Nash, Jr. , American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Economics
- June 14 - Ernesto Rafael Guevara De La Serna , Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967 )
- June 19 - Nancy Marchand , American actress (d. 2000 )
- Martin Landau , -American actor
- June 25 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 26 - Jacob Druckman , American composer (d. 1996 )
- June 28 - Harold Evans , British newspaper editor
- July 5 - Warren Oates , American actor (d. 1982 )
- July 10 - Moshe Greenberg , America Bible scholar
- July 11 - Bobo Olson , American boxer (d. 2002 )
- July 12 - Elias James Corey , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 13 - Leroy Vinnegar , American musician (d. 1999 )
- July 16 - Robert Sheckley , American writer
- July 25 - Keter Betts , American jazz bassist (d. 2005 )
- July 26
- --- Stanley Kubrick , American film director (d. 1999 )
- --- Bernice Rubens , British novelist (d. 2004 )
- August 6 - Andy Warhol , American artist (d. 1987 )
- August 7 - James Randi , Canadian magician
- August 10 - Eddie Fisher , American singer
- August 12 - Bob Buhl , baseball player (d. 2001 )
- August 15 - Nicolas Roeg , English film director
- August 18 - Marge Schott , baseball team owner (d. 2004 )
- August 25 - Herbert Kroemer , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 26 - Zdeněk Veselovský , legendary Czech zoologist (d. 2006 )
- August 31
- --- Jaime Cardinal Sin , Filipinio Catholic cardinal (d. 2005 )
- --- James Coburn , American actor (d. 2002 )
- September 3 - Gaston Thorn , Luxembourger politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007 )
- September 6 - Robert M. Pirsig , American philosopher and author
- September 11 - William Kienzle , American author (d. 2001 )
- September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley , American saxophonist
- September 19 - Adam West , American actor (famous for playing '' Batman '')
- September 20 - Donald Hall , American poet and US Poet Laureate
- September 22 - James Lawson , American civil rights activist and minister
- September 30 - Elie Wiesel , Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- October 1 - George Peppard , American actor (d. 1994 )
- October 7 - Sohrab Sepehri , Persian poet and painter (d. 1980 )
- October 8 - Bill Maynard , British actor
- October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara , Finnish composer
- October 15 - Paul Giambarba , American graphic designer
- October 30 - Daniel Nathans , American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1999 )
- November 3
- --- Osamu Tezuka , Japanese artist (d. 1989 )
- --- George Yardley , American basketball player (d. 2004 )
- November 9 - Anne Sexton , American poet (d. 1974 )
- November 10 - Ennio Morricone , Italian composer
- November 11 - Carlos Fuentes , Mexican writer
- November 17 - Rance Howard , American actor
- November 18 - Otar Gordeli , Georgian composer
- November 29 - Paul Simon , U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003 )
- November 30 - Joe B. Hall , American basketball coach
- December 7 - Noam Chomsky , American linguist
- December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Austrian artist (d. 2000 )
- December 16 - Philip K. Dick , American author (d. 1982 )
- December 25 - Dick Miller , American actor
- December 30 - Bo Diddley , American musician
- December 31 - Siné , French cartoonist
- January 1 - Loie Fuller , American dancer (b. 1862 )
- January 6 - Alvin Kraenzlein , American athlete (b. 1876 )
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy , English writer (b. 1840 )
- January 21 - Nikolai Astrup , Norwegian painter (b. 1880 )
- January 29 - Douglas Haig , British soldier (b. 1861 )
- January 30 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger , Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1867 )
- February 1 - Hughie Jennings , baseball player (b. 1869 )
- February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853 )
- February 15 - Herbert Henry Asquith , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1852 )
- February 16 - Eddie Foy , American vaudevillian (b. 1856 )
- March 7 - Robert Abbe - American surgeon (b. 1851 )
- April 2 - Theodore William Richards , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868 )
- April 5 - Roy Kilner , English cricketer (b. 1890 )
- April 19 - Dorus Rijkers , famous Dutch sailor and savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847 )
- May 22 - Francisco López Merino , Argentine poet (b. 1904 )
- June 4
- --- Emmeline Pankhurst , women's suffrage campaigner (b. 1858 )
- --- Chang Tso-lin , Chinese warlord (b. 1873 )
- June 16 - Mark Keppel , Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b. 1867 )
- June 22 - A. B. Frost , American illustrator (b. 1851 )
- August 12 - Leoš Janáček , Czech composer (b. 1854 )
- August 30 - Wilhelm Wien , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864 )
- October 13 - Dagmar Of Denmark , later , wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847 )
- October 22 - Andrew Fisher , fifth Prime Minister Of Australia (b. 1862 )
- October 31 - John William Wood Sr. , North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (b. 1855 )
- December 1 - José Eustasio Rivera , Colombian writer (b. 1888 )
- December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh , Scottish architect (b. 1868 )
- December 17 - Eglantyne Jebb - English co-founder of Save the Children, and champion of children's human rights (b. 1876 )
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