- Aug 27 Antonia Fraser, British author and biographer (Mary Queen of Scots), born in London, England
- Aug 27 Mikhail Nikolayevich Burdayev, Feodosina Krim, Russian cosmonaut
- Aug 31 Robert [Franklin] Adams, American sci-fi author (Castaways in Time)
- Sep 4 Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican politician (5th Governor of Puerto Rico), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Sep 7 John Paul Getty Jr., American-born British oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), born onboard ship in the waters near Genoa, Italy (d. 2003)
Bob Packwood (90 years old)
Sep 11 American attorney and politician (U.S. Senator from Oregon, 1969-95), born in Portland, Oregon
- Sep 11 Sonny Callahan [Herbert Leon Callahan], American politician (Rep-R-Alabama 1985-2003), born in Mobile, Alabama (d. 2021)
- Sep 14 John Tembo, Malawian politician (President of the Malawi Congress Party), born in Dedza District, Malawi
- Sep 17 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1972-95), born in Rayyan (d. 2016)
- Sep 18 Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33), born in Tomsk, Russia (d. 2002)
- Sep 18 Valery Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32/34, 35/37), born in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia
- Sep 19 Mike Royko, American journalist (Chicago Daily News) and author (Boss), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1997)
- Sep 26 Clifton Williams, American Marine Corps major and NASA astronaut, born in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1967)
Manmohan Singh (90 years old)
Sep 26 Indian politician, 13th Prime Minister of India (2004-14), born in Gah, British India
- Sep 26 Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident (Moscow 2042), born in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union (d. 2018)
- Sep 27 Oliver Williamson, American economist (Nobel Prize for Economics 2009), born in Superior, Wisconsin (d. 2020)
- Sep 27 Peter Holmes, British businessman, Chairperson of Royal Dutch Shell, born in Athens (d. 2002)
- Sep 27 Yash Chopra, Indian director (Waqt), born in Lahore, British India (d. 2012)
- Sep 28 Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canadian sci-fi author (Cat Karina)
- Sep 29 Peter Stormonth Darling, Scottish investment banker (Mercury Asset Management Group, largest fundmanagement the UK), (d. 2019)
- Sep 29 Rainer Weiss, American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2017, LIGO), born in Berlin, Germany
- Sep 29 Ronald B. Kitaj, American-British painter and graphic artist (pop art), born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio (d. 2007)
- Sep 30 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo), born in Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan (d. 2022)
- Oct 2 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish paramilitary and political leader of Sinn Féin, born in Longford, Ireland (d. 2013)
- Oct 4 Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
- Oct 5 Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, American politician (first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress), born in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 6 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women's International Center)
- Oct 7 Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond, born in Oeffelt, Netherlands (d. 2013)
- Oct 12 Jake Edwin Garn, American politician (US Senate-R-Utah, 1974-93) and NASA astronaut (STS-51-D), born in Richfield, Utah
- Oct 14 Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist, born in Kolomna, Russia (d. 2005)
- Oct 15 Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, born in Rotterdam (d. 1977)
- Oct 16 John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
- Oct 17 William J. Hughes, American politician and diplomat (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1975-95), born in Salem, New Jersey (d. 2019)
- Oct 18 Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician (European Parliament, 2003-14; Speaker of the Seimas, 1996-2000), and writer, born in Kaunas, Lithuania
- Oct 23 Vasily Belov, Russian author, poet and playwright (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), born in Northern Krai, USSR (d. 2012)
- Oct 24 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (1991), born in Paris, France (d. 2007)
Robert Mundell (90 years old)
Oct 24 Canadian economist and Nobel laureate (1999) "father of the euro", born in Kingston, Ontario
- Oct 26 Anthony Beilenson, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1977-97), born in New York (d. 2017)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Oct 27 American poet (The Colossus; Three Women), novelist (The Bell Jar), and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner (Poetry, 1982), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Oct 30 Barun De, Indian historian, born in Calcutta, India (d. 2013)
- Nov 2 Henri Namphy, President of Haiti (1986-88), born in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
- Nov 2 Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos - subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), born in NYC, New York
- Nov 2 Romano Mazzoli, American politician (Rep-D-KY, 1971-95), born in Louisville, Kentucky
- Nov 3 Thomas J. Manton, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1985-99), born in New York City (d. 2006)
- Nov 4 Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (1992-2004), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2004)
- Nov 5 Arthur L. Liman, American trial lawyer (Oliver North), born in NYC, New York
- Nov 5 Salvatore Bonanno, American mafioso and son of crime boss Joseph Bonanno, born in NYC, New York (d. 2008)
- Nov 7 Yrrah [Harry Lammertink], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland), born in Apeldoorn, Netherlands (d. 1996)
- Nov 8 Ben Bova, American sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2020) [1]
- Nov 8 Richard E. Lawyer, American astronaut, born in Los Angeles, California
- Nov 9 Marian Christy, American author (Invasions of Privacy), born in Ridgefield, Connecticut
- Nov 22 Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
- Nov 23 Michel David-Weill, French investment banker (Lazard Frère), born in Paris, France
- Nov 26 Marten Beinema, Dutch politician (CDA)
- Nov 27 Benigno Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader who was assassinated, born in Concepcion, Philippines (d. 1983)
Jacques Chirac (1932-2019)
Nov 29 President of France (1995-2007) and Prime Minister of France (1974-76, 1986-88), born in Paris, France
- Nov 29 John Anthony Kaiser, American Roman Catholic priest, born in Perham, Minnesota (d. 2000)
- Nov 30 Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
- Nov 30 David Lightbown, British politician and government whip
- Dec 1 Robert T. Herres, American air force officer (Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2008)
- Dec 4 Joanne Battiste, artist (heroines) (d. 2009)
- Dec 4 Roh Tae-Woo, 6th President South Korea (1988-93), born in Dong-gu, Daegu, South Korea
- Dec 5 Fazu Aliyeva, Russian poet, novelist and journalist who helped develop Dagestani in Russian literature, born in Khunzakhsky District, Soviet Union (d. 2016)
- Dec 5 Sheldon Lee Glashow, American theoretical physicist (Electroweak theory, Georgi–Glashow model), born in NYC, New York
- Dec 7 Paul Caponigro, American photographer, born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Dec 10 Ross Taylor [Robert Murray Taylor], Scottish transplant surgeon who pioneered kidney transplantations in the U.K, born in Scotland (d. 2003)
- Dec 14 Étienne Tshisekedi, Congolese opposition leader, born in Luluabourg, Central Congo (d. 2017)
- Dec 16 Quentin Blake, English illustrator, British Children's Laureate (1999-2001), born in Sidcup, England
- Dec 19 Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
- Dec 21 Edward Hoagland, American essayist, born in NYC, New York
- Dec 23 Tertius Metcalf, English businessman, born in Essex, England (d. 1996)
- Dec 24 Cynthia Payne, English brothel madam, born in Bognor Regis, West Sussex (d. 2015)
- Dec 24 On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist, born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan (d. 2014)
- Dec 25 Jose Maria Capricorne, Curacaos graphically designer/painter
- Dec 26 Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter
- Dec 28 Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer
- Dec 28 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
- Dec 28 Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer (Blood of Requited Love)
- Dec 28 Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader
- Dec 31 Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and newspaper editor (La Prensa; El Nuevo Diario), born in Granada, Nicaragua, (d. 2008)