Birthdays In History 1921

1921 Ismail al-Faruqi Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (d. 1986)

1921 César Baldaccini French sculptor and academic (d. 1998)

1921 Regina Bianchi Italian actress (d. 2013)

1921 Glen Harmon Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

1921 Isabella Bashmakova Russian historian of mathematics (d. 2005)

1921 Friedrich Dürrenmatt Swiss author and playwright (d. 1990)

1921 Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg Luxembourgish soldier and aristocrat (d. 2019)

1921 John H. Reed American politician and diplomat 67th Governor of Maine (d. 2012)

1921 Marianne Grunberg-Manago Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013)

1921 Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid Colombian politician (d. 1997)

1921 Chester Kallman American poet and translator (d. 1975)

1921 Ágnes Keleti Hungarian Olympic gymnast

1921 Rodger Ward American aviator race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2004)

1921 Gory Guerrero American wrestler and trainer (d. 1990)

1921 Juanita M. Kreps American economist and politician 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)

1921 Necati Cumalı Greek-Turkish author and poet (d. 2001)

1921 Dachine Rainer American-English author and poet (d. 2000)

1921 Arthur Stevens English footballer (d. 2007)

1921 Murray Bookchin American author and philosopher (d. 2006)

1921 Kenneth Bulmer American author (d. 2005)

1921 Babasaheb Bhosale Indian lawyer and politician eighth Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2007)

1921 Frank Thornton English actor (d. 2013)

1921 Francesco Scavullo American photographer (d. 2004)

1921 Asghar Khan Pakistani general and politician (d. 2018)

1921 Jackie Henderson Scottish footballer (d. 2005)

1921 Charlie Mitten English footballer and manager (d. 2002)

1921 Antonio Prohías Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)

1921 Yoichiro Nambu Japanese-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

1921 Patricia Highsmith American novelist and short story writer (d. 1995)

1921 Telmo Zarra Spanish footballer (d. 2006)

1921 Samuel T. Cohen American physicist and academic (d. 2010)

1921 Josef Holeček Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2005)

1921 Eddie Barclay French record producer founded Barclay Records (d. 2005)

1921 John Agar American actor (d. 2002)

1921 Carol Channing American actress singer and dancer (d. 2019)

1921 E. Fay Jones American architect designed the Thorncrown Chapel (d. 2004)

1921 Mario Lanza American tenor and actor (d. 1959)

1921 Lotfi Zadeh Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017)

1921 Ken Adam German-born English production designer and art director (d. 2016)

1921 Athol Rowan South African cricketer (d. 1998)

1921 Barney Danson Canadian colonel and politician 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2011)

1921 Nexhmije Hoxha Albanian politician (d. 2020)

1921 Balram Singh Rai Guyanese politician 1st Minister of Home Affairs (d. 2022)

1921 Lloyd Bentsen American politician 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2006)

1921 Ottavio Missoni Italian hurdler and fashion designer founded Missoni (d. 2013)

1921 Jeanne Demessieux French pianist and composer (d. 1968)

1921 Aung Khin Burmese painter (d. 1996)

1921 Hugh Downs American journalist game show host and producer (d. 2020)

1921 Hazel McCallion Canadian businesswoman and politician 3rd Mayor of Mississauga (d. 2023)

1921 Jean Behra French race car driver (d. 1959)

1921 John Galbraith Graham English priest and academic (d. 2013)

1921 Duane Gish American biochemist and academic (d. 2013)

1921 Mary Amdur American toxicologist and public health researcher (d. 1998)

1921 Oscar Feltsman Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (d. 2013)

1921 Buddy Rogers American wrestler (d. 1992)

1921 John Rawls American philosopher and academic (d. 2002)

1921 Richard T. Whitcomb American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009)

1921 Giulietta Masina Italian actress (d. 1994)

1921 Marshall Teague American race car driver (d. 1959)

1921 Abe Vigoda American actor (d. 2016)

1921 Pierre Laporte Canadian journalist lawyer and politician Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 1970)

1921 Andy Pafko American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)

1921 Theodore Van Kirk American soldier pilot and navigator (d. 2014)

1921 Marah Halim Harahap Indonesian military officer Governor of North Sumatra (d. 2015)

1921 Cameron Argetsinger American race car driver and lawyer (d. 2008)

1921 Terence Cooke American cardinal (d. 1983)

1921 Richard Wilbur American poet translator and essayist (d. 2017)

1921 Kazimierz Górski Polish footballer and coach (d. 2006)

1921 Ernst Haas Austrian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1986)

1921 Diana Barrymore American actress (d. 1960)

1921 Halim El-Dabh Egyptian-American composer and educator (d. 2017)

1921 Joan Greenwood English actress (d. 1987)

1921 Dinny Pails English-Australian tennis player (d. 1986)

1921 Arthur A. Oliner American physicist and electrical engineer (d. 2013)

1921 Elmer Valo American baseball player and coach (d. 1998)

1921 Carl Betz American actor (d. 1978)

1921 Astor Piazzolla Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player (d. 1992)

1921 Gianni Agnelli Italian businessman (d. 2001)

1921 Gordon MacRae American actor and singer (d. 1986)

1921 Al Jaffee American cartoonist

1921 S. Truett Cathy American businessman founded Chick-fil-A (d. 2014)

1921 Ada Louise Huxtable American author and critic (d. 2013)

1921 Madelyn Pugh American television writer and producer (d. 2011)

1921 Meir Amit Israeli general and politician 12th Israeli Minister of Communications (d. 2009)

1921 Tommy Cooper British magician and prop comedian (d. 1984)

1921 Usmar Ismail Indonesian filmmaker (d. 1971)

1921 Dušan Pirjevec Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977)

1921 Alfréd Rényi Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)

1921 Arthur Grumiaux Belgian violinist and pianist (d. 1986)

1921 Antony Hopkins English pianist composer and conductor (d. 2014)

1921 Nino Manfredi Italian actor director and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1921 Donald Campbell English race car driver (d. 1967)

1921 Peter Lawler Australian public servant (d. 2017)

1921 Nancy Kelly American actress (d. 1995)

1921 Alexandra of Yugoslavia the last Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)

1921 Phil Chess Czech-American record producer co-founded Chess Records (d. 2016)

1921 Moacir Barbosa Nascimento Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)

1921 Harold Nicholas American actor and dancer (d. 2000)

1921 Harold Agnew American physicist and academic (d. 2013)

1921 Dirk Bogarde English actor and author (d. 1999)

1921 Sam Loxton Australian cricketer footballer and politician (d. 2011)

1921 André Fontaine French historian and journalist (d. 2013)

1921 Lowell Fulson African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)

1921 Peggy Rea American actress and casting director (d. 2011)

1921 William Bergsma American composer and educator (d. 1994)

1921 Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith American guitarist fiddler and composer (d. 2014)

1921 Robert Karvelas American actor (d. 1991)

1921 Jan Sterling American actress (d. 2004)

1921 Orunamamu American-Canadian author and educator (d. 2014)

1921 Elizabeth Wilson American actress (d. 2015)

1921 Christopher Hewett English actor and theatre director (d. 2001)

1921 Wilbur Thompson American shot putter (d. 2013)

1921 Feza Gürsey Turkish mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)

1921 Franco Corelli Italian tenor and actor (d. 2003)

1921 Jan Novák Czech composer (d. 1984)

1921 Herman van Raalte Dutch footballer (d. 2013)

1921 Jean-Marie Balestre French businessman (d. 2008)

1921 Yitzhak Navon Israeli politician (d. 2015)

1921 Frankie Thomas American actor (d. 2006)

1921 Mary Jackson African-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (d. 2005)

1921 Jim Hearn American baseball player (d. 1998)

1921 Jack Rayner Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2008)

1921 Robert Cliche Canadian lawyer judge and politician (d. 1978)

1921 Arlin Adams American lawyer and judge (d. 2015)

1921 Wolfgang Leonhard German historian and author (d. 2014)

1921 Jean Richard French actor and singer (d. 2001)

1921 Anna Lee Aldred American jockey (d. 2006)

1921 Leon Henkin American logician (d. 2006)

1921 Roberto Tucci Italian Jesuit leader cardinal and theologian (d. 2015)

1921 Judy Agnew Second Lady of the United States (d. 2012)

1921 Cleto Bellucci Italian archbishop (d. 2013)

1921 Janet Blair American actress and singer (d. 2007)

1921 Karel Appel Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006)

1921 Jimmy Giuffre American clarinet player saxophonist and composer (d. 2008)

1921 Robert Dhéry French actor director and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1921 Rowland Evans American soldier journalist and author (d. 2001)

1921 Simin Daneshvar Iranian author and academic (d. 2012)

1921 Roger L. Easton American scientist co-invented the GPS (d. 2014)

1921 Vladimir Colin Romanian journalist and author (d. 1991)

1921 B. B. Lal Indian archaeologist (d. 2022)

1921 Satyajit Ray Indian director producer and screenwriter (d. 1992)

1921 Patsy Garrett American actress and singer (d. 2015)

1921 John van Kesteren Dutch-American tenor and actor (d. 2008)

1921 Edo Murtić Croatian painter sculptor and illustrator (d. 2005)

1921 Erich Fried Austrian-German author poet and translator (d. 1988)

1921 Asa Briggs Baron Briggs English historian and academic (d. 2016)

1921 Gaston Rébuffat French mountaineer and author (d. 1985)

1921 Robin Barbour Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)

1921 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher German politician (d. 2016)

1921 Joseph Beuys German sculptor and illustrator (d. 1986)

1921 Farley Mowat Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 2014)

1921 Lily Renée American comic-book artist (d. 2022)

1921 Richard Deacon American actor (d. 1984)

1921 Federico Krutwig Basque writer member of ETA and translator (d. 1998)

1921 Harry Carey Jr. American actor producer and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1921 Dennis Brain English horn player (d. 1957)

1921 Leslie Broderick English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)

1921 Harry W. Brown American colonel and pilot (d. 1991)

1921 Daniel Gélin French actor director and screenwriter (d. 2002)

1921 Yuri Kochiyama American activist (d. 2014)

1921 Karel van het Reve Dutch historian and author (d. 1999)

1921 Wolfgang Borchert German author and playwright (d. 1947)

1921 Hal Newhouser American baseball player and scout (d. 1998)

1921 Pedro Trebbau German-born Venezuelan zoologist (d. 2021)

1921 Hao Wang Chinese-American logician philosopher and mathematician (d. 1995)

1921 Sandy Douglas English computer scientist and academic designed OXO (d. 2010)

1921 George S. Hammond American scientist (d. 2005)

1921 Humphrey Lyttelton British jazz musician and broadcaster (d. 2008)

1921 Hal David American songwriter and composer (d. 2012)

1921 Kitty Kallen American singer (d. 2016)

1921 Jack Steinberger German-Swiss physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)

1921 Inge Borkh German soprano (d. 2018)

1921 Bob Godfrey Australian-English animator director and voice actor (d. 2013)

1921 D. V. Paluskar Indian Hindustani classical musician (d. 1955)

1921 Heinz G. Konsalik German journalist and author (d. 1999)

1921 Tom Uren Australian soldier boxer and politician (d. 2015)

1921 Norman Hetherington Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010)

1921 Edna Doré English actress (d. 2014)

1921 Andrew Grima Anglo-Italian jewellery designer (d. 2007)

1921 Howard Reig American radio and television announcer (d. 2008)

1921 Alida Valli Austrian-Italian actress and singer (d. 2006)

1921 Betty Freeman American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)

1921 Ernie Royal American trumpet player (d. 1983)

1921 Sigmund Sternberg Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)

1921 András Szennay Hungarian priest (d. 2012)

1921 Forbes Carlile Australian pentathlete and coach (d. 2016)

1921 Jean Dréjac French singer and composer (d. 2003)

1921 Milan Komar Slovenian-Argentinian philosopher and academic (d. 2006)

1921 Bobby Wanzer American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)

1921 Gordon McLendon American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)

1921 Olga Nardone American actress (d. 2010)

1921 LeRoy Neiman American painter (d. 2012)

1921 Alexis Smith Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)

1921 Arthur Hertzberg American rabbi and scholar (d. 2006)

1921 Jean Lacouture French journalist historian and author (d. 2015)

1921 Jean Robic French cyclist (d. 1980)

1921 Luis García Berlanga Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1921 Christopher Derrick English author critic and academic (d. 2007)

1921 James Archibald Houston Canadian author and illustrator (d. 2005)

1921 Lennart Strand Swedish runner (d. 2004)

1921 Martha Greenhouse American actress (d. 2013)

1921 Louis Jourdan French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)

1921 Byron Farwell American historian and author (d. 1999)

1921 Pancho Segura Ecuadorian tennis player (d. 2017)

1921 Jane Russell American actress and singer (d. 2011)

1921 William Edwin Self American actor producer and production manager (d. 2010)

1921 Joseph Papp American director and producer (d. 1991)

1921 Barbara Vucanovich American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)

1921 Radovan Ivšić Croatian writer (d. 2009)

1921 Barbara Perry American actress (d. 2019)

1921 Paul Findley American politician (d. 2019)

1921 Gerhard Sommer German soldier (d. 2019)

1921 Celia Franca English-Canadian ballerina and choreographer founded the National Ballet of Canada (d. 2007)

1921 Violette Szabo French-British secret agent (d. 1945)

1921 Robert Everett American computer scientist (d. 2018)

1921 Muriel Pavlow English actress (d. 2019)

1921 Frédéric Dard French author and screenwriter (d. 2000)

1921 Jean Kent English actress (d. 2013)

1921 Reinhard Mohn German businessman (d. 2009)

1921 Harry Schell French-American race car driver (d. 1960)

1921 Washington SyCip American-Filipino accountant (d. 2017)

1921 Seretse Khama Batswana lawyer and politician 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)

1921 Michalina Wisłocka Polish gynecologist and sexologist (d. 2005)

1921 Arthur Johnson Canadian canoeist (d. 2003)

1921 Flor María Chalbaud First Lady of Venezuela (d. 2013)

1921 Susan Peters American actress (d. 1952)

1921 François Reichenbach French director producer and screenwriter (d. 1993)

1921 Gérard Debreu French economist and mathematician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1921 Nasser Sharifi Iranian sports shooter

1921 Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (d. 2014)

1921 Philip Rose American actor playwright and producer (d. 2011)

1921 Tibor Varga Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)

1921 Viktor Kulikov Russian marshal (d. 2013)

1921 Nanos Valaoritis Greek author poet and playwright (d. 2019)

1921 Allan MacEachen Canadian economist and politician Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2017)

1921 Billy Mauch American actor (d. 2006)

1921 Bobby Mauch American actor (d. 2007)

1921 Adolf von Thadden German lieutenant and politician (d. 1996)

1921 John Money New Zealand psychologist and sexologist known for his research on gender identity and responsible for controversial involuntary sex reassignment of David Reimer (d. 2006)

1921 David C. Jones American general (d. 2013)

1921 Harvey Ball American illustrator created the Smiley (d. 2001)

1921 Jeff Donnell American actress (d. 1988)

1921 John K. Singlaub U.S. Army Major General (d. 2022)

1921 Eunice Kennedy Shriver American activist co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)

1921 Ernest Gold Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1999)

1921 Sixto Durán Ballén American-Ecuadorian architect and politician 48th President of Ecuador (d. 2016)

1921 Leon Garfield English author (d. 1996)

1921 Armand Gaudreault Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)

1921 Geoffrey Wilkinson English chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

1921 Henri Colpi Swiss-French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)

1921 Robert Bruce Merrifield American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

1921 George Barnes American guitarist producer and songwriter (d. 1977)

1921 Louis Lachenal French mountaineer (d. 1955)

1921 Mary Osborne American guitarist (d. 1992)

1921 František Zvarík Slovak actor (d. 2008)

1921 Peter Austin English brewer founded Ringwood Brewery (d. 2014)

1921 Aaron Beck American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2021)

1921 Richard Leacock English-French director and producer (d. 2011)

1921 Heinz Bennent German actor (d. 2011)

1921 Harold Camping American evangelist author radio host (d. 2013)

1921 André Moynet French soldier race car driver and politician (d. 1993)

1921 Elizabeth Spencer American novelist short story writer and playwright (d. 2019)

1921 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)

1921 Henri Alleg English-French journalist and author (d. 2013)

1921 James Cooke Brown American sociologist and author (d. 2000)

1921 John Horsley English actor (d. 2014)

1921 Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa Zulu sangoma (d. 2020)

1921 William Roth American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)

1921 Calvert DeForest American actor (d. 2007)

1921 Giuseppe Di Stefano Italian tenor and actor (d. 2008)

1921 Billy Taylor American pianist and composer (d. 2010)

1921 Adolph Herseth American soldier and trumpet player (d. 2013)

1921 Lionel Terray French mountaineer (d. 1965)

1921 Tom Saffell American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)

1921 Jean Shepherd American radio host actor and screenwriter (d. 1999)

1921 Garry Davis American pilot and activist created the World Passport (d. 2013)

1921 Émile Genest Canadian-American actor (d. 2003)

1921 Richard Egan American actor (d. 1987)

1921 Chris Marker French photographer and journalist (d. 2012)

1921 Grant Johannesen American pianist and educator (d. 2005)

1921 Peter Benenson English lawyer and activist founded Amnesty International (d. 2005)

1921 Donald Malarkey American sergeant and author (d. 2017)

1921 Whitney Young American activist (d. 1971)

1921 Pat McDonald Australian actress (d. 1990)

1921 Alan Whicker Egyptian-English journalist (d. 2013)

1921 Richard Adler American composer and producer (d. 2012)

1921 Hayden Carruth American poet and critic (d. 2008)

1921 Marilyn Maxwell American actress (d. 1972)

1921 Herb Ellis American guitarist (d. 2010)

1921 Terry Becker American actor director and producer (d. 2014)

1921 Manitas de Plata French guitarist (d. 2014)

1921 Karel Husa Czech-American composer and conductor (d. 2016)

1921 William Asher American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1921 Webb Pierce American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)

1921 Esther Williams American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)

1921 Ernest Angley American evangelist and author (d. 2021)

1921 J. James Exon American soldier and politician 33rd Governor of Nebraska (d. 2005)

1921 Louis Frémaux French conductor (d. 2017)

1921 Jimmy McCracklin American blues/R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012)

1921 Mary Lee Scottish singer (d. 2022)

1921 August Kowalczyk Polish actor and director (d. 2012)

1921 Geoffrey Elton German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)

1921 Lydia Litvyak Russian lieutenant and pilot (d. 1943)

1921 Zdzisław Żygulski Polish historian and academic (d. 2015)

1921 Gene Roddenberry American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)

1921 Keith Froome Australian rugby league player (d. 1978)

1921 Jack Wilson Australian cricketer (d. 1985)

1921 Reuven Feuerstein Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)

1921 Dinos Dimopoulos Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003)

1921 Tony Pawson English cricketer footballer and journalist (d. 2012)

1921 Kenneth Arrow American economist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)

1921 Sam Cook English cricketer and umpire (d. 1996)

1921 Eric Simms English ornithologist and conservationist (d. 2009)

1921 Monty Hall Canadian television personality and game show host (d. 2017)

1921 Bryce Mackasey Canadian businessman and politician 20th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1999)

1921 Brian Moore Northern Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999)

1921 Shimshon Amitsur Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)

1921 Benjamin C. Bradlee American journalist and author (d. 2014)

1921 Georg Alexander Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1996)

1921 Leo Penn American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1998)

1921 John Herbert Chapman Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979)

1921 Fernando Fernán Gómez Spanish actor director and playwright (d. 2007)

1921 Nancy Kulp American actress and soldier (d. 1991)

1921 Lidia Gueiler Tejada the first female President of Bolivia (d. 2011)

1921 Otis G. Pike American judge and politician (d. 2014)

1921 Raymond Williams Welsh author and academic (d. 1988)

1921 Willem Frederik Hermans Dutch author poet and playwright (d. 1995)

1921 John Aston Sr. English footballer (d. 2003)

1921 Thurston Dart English pianist conductor and musicologist (d. 1971)

1921 Marguerite Higgins American journalist and author (d. 1966)

1921 Murray Henderson Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013)

1921 Jack Valenti American businessman created the MPAA film rating system (d. 2007)

1921 Carmen Laforet Spanish author (d. 2004)

1921 Norman Joseph Woodland American inventor co-created the bar code (d. 2012)

1921 Peter A. Peyser American soldier and politician (d. 2014)

1921 Harry Secombe Welsh-English actor (d. 2001)

1921 Dinko Šakić Croatian concentration camp commander (d. 2008)

1921 Joann Lõssov Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2000)

1921 John W. Morris American general (d. 2013)

1921 Leaford Bearskin American tribal leader and colonel (d. 2012)

1921 Frank McGee American journalist (d. 1974)

1921 Stanisław Lem Polish philosopher and author (d. 2006)

1921 Turgut Cansever Turkish architect city planner and thinker (d. 2009)

1921 Constance Baker Motley American lawyer judge and politician (d. 2005)

1921 A. Jean de Grandpré Canadian lawyer businessman and academic (d. 2022)

1921 Paul Poberezny American pilot and businessman founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (d. 2013)

1921 Dario Vittori Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (d. 2001)

1921 Richard Gordon English surgeon and author (d. 2017)

1921 Gene Roland American pianist and composer (d. 1982)

1921 Ursula Franklin German-Canadian metallurgist (d. 2016)

1921 Jon Hendricks American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)

1921 Korla Pandit American pianist and composer (d. 1998)

1921 Paulo Freire Brazilian philosopher theorist and academic (d. 1997)

1921 Billy Ward American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2002)

1921 Chico Hamilton American drummer composer and bandleader (d. 2013)

1921 John McHale American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)

1921 Will Elder American illustrator (d. 2008)

1921 Jim McKay American sportscaster and journalist (d. 2008)

1921 Sheila MacRae English-American actress singer and dancer (d. 2014)

1921 Rob Muldoon New Zealand sergeant accountant and politician 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)

1921 Miklós Jancsó Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2014)

1921 Milton Subotsky American screenwriter and producer co-founded Amicus Productions (d. 1991)

1921 Bernard Waber American author and illustrator (d. 2013)

1921 James Cross Irish-British diplomat (d. 2021)

1921 John Ritchie New Zealand composer and educator (d. 2014)

1921 Deborah Kerr Scottish-English actress (d. 2007)

1921 Aldo Parisot Brazilian-American cellist and educator (d. 2018)

1921 James Whitmore American actor (d. 2009)

1921 Edmund Crispin English writer and composer (d. 1978)

1921 Albert Scott Crossfield American pilot and engineer (d. 2006)

1921 Robert Runcie English archbishop (d. 2000)

1921 Ray Lindwall Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1996)

1921 Stella Pevsner American children's author (d. 2020)

1921 Bill Willis American football player and coach (d. 2007)

1921 Evgenii Landis Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1997)

1921 Joseph Lowery American minister and activist (d. 2020)

1921 Raymond Goethals Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)

1921 Abraham Sarmiento Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2010)

1921 Michel Boisrond French director and screenwriter (d. 2002)

1921 Tadeusz Różewicz Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)

1921 Art Clokey American animator producer screenwriter and voice actor created Gumby (d. 2010)

1921 Logie Bruce Lockhart Scottish rugby player and journalist (d. 2020)

1921 Yves Montand Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1991)

1921 José Arraño Acevedo Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)

1921 Angelica Rozeanu Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (d. 2006)

1921 Matt Batts American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)

1921 Sita Ram Goel Indian historian publisher and writer (d. 2003)

1921 MacKenzie Miller American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)

1921 George Mackay Brown Scottish author poet and playwright (d. 1996)

1921 Priscilla Buckley American journalist and author (d. 2012)

1921 Maria Gorokhovskaya Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)

1921 Tom Poston American actor and comedian (d. 2007)

1921 Jerry Cooke Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)

1921 Jesse Helms American journalist and politician (d. 2008)

1921 Beatrice Helen Worsley Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)

1921 George Nader American actor (d. 2002)

1921 Manny Ayulo American race car driver (d. 1955)

1921 Hans Warren Dutch poet and author (d. 2001)

1921 Malcolm Arnold English composer (d. 2006)

1921 Bruce Beeby Australian-English actor (d. 2013)

1921 Robert Clothier Canadian actor (d. 1999)

1921 Jim Shumate American fiddler and composer (d. 2013)

1921 Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 2015)

1921 Georges Brassens French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)

1921 Alexander Kronrod Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)

1921 Harald Nugiseks Estonian sergeant (d. 2014)

1921 Ted Ditchburn English footballer and manager (d. 2005)

1921 R. K. Laxman Indian illustrator (d. 2015)

1921 Joe Fulks American basketball player (d. 1976)

1921 Warren Allen Smith American journalist author and activist (d. 2017)

1921 Azumafuji Kin'ichi Japanese sumo wrestler the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)

1921 Baselios Thoma Didymos I Indian metropolitan (d. 2014)

1921 Baku Mahadeva Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (d. 2013)

1921 Bill Mauldin American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)

1921 Valli Lember-Bogatkina (d. 2016)

1921 John W. Peterson American pilot and songwriter (d. 2006)

1921 Harald Quandt German businessman (d. 1967)

1921 Shepard Menken American actor (d. 1999)

1921 Bill Mosienko Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1994)

1921 Mary Sherman Morgan American scientist and engineer (d. 2004)

1921 Georges Cziffra Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)

1921 Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)

1921 Geoff Rabone New Zealand cricketer (d. 2006)

1921 Lisa Ben American singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2015)

1921 Jack Fleck American golfer (d. 2014)

1921 Susanne Hirzel member of the White Rose (d. 2012)

1921 Douglas Townsend American composer musicologist and academic (d. 2012)

1921 Pierrette Alarie Canadian soprano and actress (d. 2011)

1921 Viktor Chukarin Ukrainian gymnast and coach (d. 1984)

1921 Terrel Bell American sergeant academic and politician 2nd United States Secretary of Education (d. 1996)

1921 Joonas Kokkonen Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1921 Ea Jansen Estonian historian and academic (d. 2005)

1921 Brian Keith American actor and director (d. 1997)

1921 Albert Bertelsen Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2019)

1921 Peter Ruckman American pastor and educator (d. 2016)

1921 Jim Garrison American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)

1921 Donald Sheldon American pilot (d. 1975)

1921 Brian Cleeve Irish sailor author and playwright (d. 2003)

1921 Fred Buscaglione Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)

1921 John Lindsay American lawyer and politician 103rd Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)

1921 Verghese Kurien Indian engineer and businessman founded Amul (d. 2012)

1921 Dora Dougherty Strother American pilot and academic (d. 2013)

1921 Jackie Stallone American astrologer and a promoter of women's wrestling (d. 2020)

1921 Vernon McGarity American sergeant Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)

1921 Carlo Furno Italian cardinal (d. 2015)

1921 Phyllis Curtin American soprano and academic (d. 2016)

1921 John Doar American lawyer and activist (d. 2014)

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1921 Patricia Robins British writer and WAAF officer (d. 2016).

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1921 Sophie Scholl German activist (d. 1943)

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