January 15 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer
January 21 - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
January 27 - Allan V. Cox, American geologist (b. 1926)
February 2 - Alistair MacLean, British writer
February 3 - Donald Aronow, Creator of the Cigarette Boat (Assasinated)
February 4 - Liberace, American pianist
February 10 - Robert O'Brien, racing driver
February 14 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer
February 22 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, writer
March 2 - Randolph Scott, American actor
March 3 - Danny Kaye, American singer, actor, and comedian
March 11 - Woody Hayes, football coach at Ohio State
March 13 - Gerald Moore, English pianist
March 19 - Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 21 - Dean Paul Martin, American actor
March 21 - Robert Preston, American actor
March 26 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor
March 28 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer
March 28 - Patrick Troughton, British actor
April 2 - Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer
April 2 - Trevor Hockey, Welsh footballer
April 3 - Tom Sestak, American football player
April 4 - C. L. Moore, American writer
April 15 - Masatoshi Nakayama, Japanese Karate Master
April 17 - Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer
April 17 - Dick Shawn, American actor
April 19 - Milt Kahl, Animator for the Disney Studio
April 19 - Hugh Brannum,American actor and radio
April 26 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician
April 28 - Ben Linder, American engineer (murdered)
May 3 - Dalida, French singer
May 4 - Paul Butterfield, American musician
May 6 - William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director
May 14 - Rita Hayworth, American actress
May 17 - Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 19 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author
May 27 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 2 - Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist
June 6 - Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor
June 10 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (suicide)
June 13 - Geraldine Page, American actor
June 19 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim
June 22 - Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer
June 22 - John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet
June 24 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and comedian
July 10 - John Hammond, American record producer
July 17 - Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler
July 17 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor
July 22 - Jack Lescoulie, American actor
August 11 - Clara Peller, American actress
August 16 - Nick Vanos, American basketball player
August 17 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official
August 26 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 28 - John Huston, American actor
August 29 - Lee Marvin, American actor
September 4 - Bill Bowes, British cricketer
September 11 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor
September 11 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician
September 16 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic
September 17 - Harry Locke, British character actor
September 21 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist
September 23 - Bob Fosse, American theater choreographer and director
September 25 - Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress
September 25 - Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist
September 29 - Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company
October 2 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 3 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist
October 3 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
October 9 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 13 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 19 - Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist
October 20 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician
October 22 - Lino Ventura, Italian actor
October 28 - Andre Masson, French artist
October 29 - Woody Herman, American jazz musician
October 31 - Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology
November 1 - Rene Levesque, Canadian politician and premier of Quebec
November 2 - Colletta Allgaier, American manager of singing group The Allgaiers
November 16 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem
November 25 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer
November 30 - James Baldwin, American writer
December 1 - Punch Imlach, Canadian NHL coach
December 2 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 10 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born violinist
