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- March 2 - Mahatma Gandhi informs British Viceroy Of India that Civil Disobedience would begin nine days later
- March 5 - Danish painter Einar Wegener goes through a Sexual Reassignment surgery and takes the name Lili Elbe
- March 6 - first Frozen Food s of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts , USA
- March 8 - Former United States President and current Chief Justice William Howard Taft dies in Washington, D.C.
- March 12 - Mahatma Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on Salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5
- March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara .
- March 29 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German '' Reichskanzler ''.
- March 31 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in Motion Pictures for the next forty years
- April 4 - The Communist Party Of Panama is founded.
- April 5 - In an act of Civil Disobedience , Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making Salt .
- April 6 - Hostess Twinkie s are invented.
- April 18 - Chittagong Rebellion begins in India .
- April 18 - The BBC Radio Service from London , somewhat infamously, reports on this day that "There is no news".
- April 21 - Fire in Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320.
- April 21 - The Turkestan-Siberia Railway is completed.
- April 22 - The United Kingdom , Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating Submarine warfare and limiting Ship building.
- April 28 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas .
- January 2 - Julius LaRosa , American singer
- January 4 - Sorrell Booke , American actor (d. 1994 )
- January 6
- --- Professor Toru Tanaka , Asian-American actor (d. 2000 )
- --- Vic Tayback , American actor (d. 1990 )
- January 10 - Roy E. Disney , American film and television executive
- January 12 - Jennifer Johnston , Irish writer
- January 20 - Buzz Aldrin , American pilot and astronaut
- January 23 - Derek Walcott , West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 26 - John Straffen , British serial killer
- January 27 - Bobby Bland , American singer
- January 30 - Gene Hackman , American actor
- February 10 - Robert Wagner , American actor
- February 22 - Marni Nixon , American singer and actress
- February 27
- --- Joanne Woodward , American actress
- --- Peter Stone , American writer (d. 2003 )
- February 28 - Leon Neil Cooper , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 2 - Tom Wolfe , American author and novelist
- March 3 - Heiner Geißler , German politician
- March 6
- --- Allison Hayes , American actress (d. 1977 )
- --- Lorin Maazel , French-born conductor
- March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones , Lord Snowdon
- March 10 - Claude Bolling , French jazz pianist and composer
- March 15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 17 - James Irwin , astronaut (d. 1991 )
- March 19 - Ornette Coleman , American musician
- March 20 - Willie Thrower , American football player
- March 22
- --- Pat Robertson , American televangelist
- --- Stephen Sondheim , American composer and lyricist
- March 24
- --- David Dacko , first President Of The Central African Republic (d. 2003 )
- --- Steve McQueen , American actor, film director, and producer (d. 1980 )
- March 25 - John Keel , American author
- March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981-2006)
- March 27 - David Janssen , American actor (d. 1980 )
- March 28 - Jerome Isaac Friedman , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 30
- --- John Astin , American actor
- --- Rolf Harris , Australian-born entertainer
- --- Peter Marshall , American game show host
- April 3
- --- Lawton Chiles , U.S. Senator and Governor of Florida (d. 1998 )
- --- Helmut Kohl , Chancellor Of Germany
- April 8 - Carlos Hugo Of Bourbon-Parma, Duke Of Parma
- April 10 - Spede Pasanen , Finnish television personality (d. 2001 )
- April 11 - Anton LaVey , American religious leader (d. 1997 )
- April 12 - Michał Życzkowski , Polish technician (d. 2006 )
- April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , President Of Iceland
- April 16 - Herbie Mann , American jazz flutist (d. 2003 )
- April 19 - Dick Sargent , American actor and gay activist (d. 1994 )
- April 21 - Silvana Mangano , Italian actress (d. 1989 )
- April 24 - Richard Donner , American film director and producer
- April 25 - Paul Mazursky , American director and writer
- April 28 - Carolyn Jones , American actress (d. 1983 )
- April 29 - Jean Rochefort , French actor
- May 3 - Bob Havens , American musician
- May 4 - Roberta Peters , American soprano
- May 8 - Heather Harper , Irish soprano
- May 9 - Joan Sims , English actress (d. 2001 )
- May 10 - Pat Summerall , American football player and broadcaster
- May 15 - Jasper Johns , American painter
- May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry , American playwright (d. 1965 )
- May 21 - Malcolm Fraser , 22nd Prime Minister Of Australia
- May 22
- --- John Barth , American writer
- --- Harvey Milk , American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978 )
- May 31 - Clint Eastwood , American actor, director, and producer
- June 2 - Charles Conrad , astronaut (d. 1999 )
- June 8 - Robert Aumann , German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Economics
- June 9 - Monique Serf , French musician (d. 1997 )
- June 11 - Charles B. Rangel , American politician
- June 12 - Jim Nabors , American actor, musician, and comedian
- June 17 - Brian Statham , English cricketer (d. 2000 )
- June 19 - Gena Rowlands , American actress
- June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin , cosmonaut (d. 1998 )
- June 24 - William B. Ziff, Jr. , American publishing executive (d. 2006 )
- June 27 - Ross Perot , American billionaire and politician
- July 2 - Carlos Menem , President Of Argentina
- July 3 - Carlos Kleiber , Austrian conductor (d. 2004 )
- July 4
- --- Frunzik Mkrtchyan , Armenian actor
- --- George Steinbrenner , baseball team owner
- July 9 - Buddy Bregman , American musical arranger
- July 11 - Harold Bloom , American literary critic
- July 15 - Jacques Derrida , Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004 )
- July 25
- --- Maureen Forrester , Canadian contralto
- --- Murray Chapple , New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985 )
- July 28 - Jean Roba , Belgian comics author (d. 2006 )
- August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist
- August 5 - Neil Armstrong , astronaut
- August 6 - Abbey Lincoln , American singer
- August 12 - George Soros , Hungarian-born businessman
- August 17 - Ted Hughes , English poet (d. 1998 )
- August 21 - Princess Margaret, Countess Of Snowdon (d. 2002 )
- August 25 - Sean Connery , Scottish actor
- August 27 - Gholamreza Takhti , The most famous wrestler in Iranian history (d. 1968 )
- August 30 - Warren Buffett , American investor
- September 3 - Cherry Wilder , New Zealand author (d. 2002 )
- September 7 - King Baudouin I Of Belgium (d. 1993 )
- September 16 - Anne Francis , American actress
- September 23 - Ray Charles , American singer and musician (d. 2004 )
- September 24 - Angelo Muscat , Maltese actor (d. 1971 )
- September 25 - Shel Silverstein , American author, poet, and humorist (d. 1999 )
- September 26
- --- Philip Bosco , American actor
- --- Fritz Wunderlich , German tenor (d. 1966 )
- October 1
- --- Richard Harris , Irish actor (d. 2002 )
- --- Philippe Noiret , French actor (d. 2006 )
- October 5
- --- Anne Haddy , Australian actress (d. 1999 )
- --- Pavel Popovich , cosmonaut
- --- Reinhard Selten , German economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 6 - Hafez Al-Assad , President Of Syria (d. 2000 )
- October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu , Japanese composer (d. 1996 )
- October 10
- --- Yves Chauvin , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- Harold Pinter , English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 11 - Sam Johnson , American politician
- October 14 - Schafik Handal , Salvadoran politician (d. 2006 )
- October 17
- --- Robert Atkins , American nutritionist (d. 2003 )
- --- Joe Erskine , American welterweight boxer and long distance runner
- October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone , English auto racing tycoon
- October 29
- --- Puck Brouwer , Dutch athlete (d. 2006 )
- --- Natalie Sleeth , American composer (d. 1992 )
- October 30
- --- Clifford Brown , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956 )
- --- Timothy Findley , Canadian author (d. 2002 )
- October 31 - Michael Collins , astronaut
- November 4 - Doris Roberts , American actress
- November 14
- --- Shirley Crabtree , British professional wrestler (d. 1997 )
- --- Edward White , astronaut (d. 1967 )
- November 15 - J.G. Ballard , English writer
- November 16 - Chinua Achebe , Nigerian writer
- November 24 - Bob Friend , baseball player
- December 1 - Joachim Hoffmann , German historian (d. 2002 )
- December 2 - Gary Becker , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 4 - Jim Hall , jazz guitarist
- December 6 - Daniel Lisulo , Prime Minister Of Zambia (d. 2000 )
- December 8 - Stan Richards , Former Emmerdale actor (d. 2005 )
- December 11
- --- Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor
- --- Jim Williams , American antique dealer and preservationist
- December 15 - Edna O'Brien , Irish writer
- December 21
- --- Adebayo Adedeji , Nigerian UN official
- --- Kalevi Sorsa , prime minister of Finland (d. 2004 )
- December 27 - Wilfrid Sheed , English-born American writer
- December 31 - Odetta , American singer
- ''date unknown'' - Barney Glaser , American sociologist
- February 14 - Sir Thomas MacKenzie , New Zealand Prime Minister and High Commissioner (b. 1854 )
- February 21 - Ahmad Shah Qajar , Shah Of Persia (b. 1898 )
- February 23 - Horst Wessel , Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907 )
- March 2 - D. H. Lawrence , English writer (b. 1885 )
- March 6 - Alfred Von Tirpitz , German politician and admiral (b. 1848 )
- March 8 - William Howard Taft , 27th President Of The United States , Chief Justice Of The United States (b. 1857 )
- March 12 - William George Barker , Canadian pilot
- March 19 - Arthur James Balfour , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1848 )
- March 24 - Eugeen Van Mieghem , Belgian painter (b. 1875 )
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