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2 Births

2.1 January-April

January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
January 13 - Army Archerd , Hollywood journalist
January 13 - Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
January 14 - Andy Rooney, television journalist
January 23 - Hans Haas , zoologist and underwater scientist
January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (d. 1962)
January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor (d. 1972)
January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972)
February 5 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
February 11 - Gretchen Fraser , slalom skier.
February 11 - Eddie Robinson , football coach.
February 12 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)
February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician (d. 1991)
March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
March 11 - Mercer Ellington , musician, composer (d. 1996)
March 15 - Lawrence Tierney , actor (d. 2002)
March 17 - Nat King Cole, singer (d. 1965)
March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author and publisher
March 30 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
April 8 - Ian Douglas Smith, leader of white-ruled Rhodesia 1965-1979

2.2 May-December

May 3 - Pete Seeger, singer and musician
May 7 - Eva Peron, wife of Argentina's President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
May 16 - Liberace, pianist (d. 1987)
May 16 - Gisela Uhlen , actress
May 18 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
May 20 - George Gobel, comedian (d. 1991)
May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress, dancer
June 5 - Richard Scarry, children's author (d. 1994)
June 21 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1997)
June 26 - Richard Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003)
July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor (d. 1996)
July 20 - Edmund Hillary, mountaineer
September 21 - Fazlur Rahman, scholar (d. 1988)
September 27 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (d. 1986)
October 1 - member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania
October 11 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (d. 1990)
October 18 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canadian prime minister (d. 2000)
October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
October 26 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov - inventor, designer of the Ak-47
November 18 - Andrée Borrel, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis (d. 1944)
November - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (d. 2004)

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